MATHEMATICS LECTURER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 4

MATHEMATICS LECTURER

DR SILVERSTONE APPOINTED Dr Harold Silverstone, M.A., Ph.D. (Edin.), has been appointed assistant lecturer in mathematics at the University of Otago. He will take up his duties next month. Dr Silverstone, who is a son of Mr Mark Silverstone, of this city, was born in Dunedin. He was educated at the Otago Boys’ High School and the Otago University, where he obtained his M.A. degree with first class honours in pure and applied mathematics. He then went to Edinburgh, where he studied under Dr A. C. Aitken at the Edinburgh University, there gaining his Ph.D. degree in statistics. Since returning to New Zealand, Dr Silverstone has been employed in the Correspondence School section of the Education Department. In 1943, when Dr Helen Deem, the medical adviser to the Plunket Society, and her officers, undertook an analysis of the growth of New Zealand infants during their first year of life. Dr Silverstone was called in to assist with the compilation of the significant statistics. The findings were published in the New Zealand Medical Journal under the joint authorship of Dr Deem and Dr Silverstone, and subsequently republished in booklet form for general circulation in the Dominion and abroad.