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Six Music Faculty
To Present Recital
Six members of the music
faculty at West Georgia College
will present a special faculty
recital in the Recital Hall of the
Humanities building on May 13,
at 8 p.m.
To begin the program, “Five
Miniatures for Four Household
Instruments,” an original work
by Dr. John T. Mac Lean,
assistant professor of music, will
be played for the first time.
Performing the work will be
Soon.-Chung Suh, instructor in
music, on the violin; James R.
Collins, assistant professor of
music, on the French horn;
Arthur Riedel, instructor in
music, on the bassoon; and Dr.
Mac Lean on the viola.
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Another number to be heard is
“Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and
Piano” by Milhaud, played by
Suh, Riedel, and Betty S. Tolbert,
instructor in music.
Also, “Suite Hebraique for
Viola and Piano” by Bloch will be
performed by Dr. Mac Lean and
Michael J. Harendza, assistant
professor of music.
To conclude the program, Suh,
Collins, and Harendza will play
Brahms “Trio for Violin, French
Horn, and Piano in E Flat.”
The variety of music to be
presented during the recital will
range from the neoclassical to
the intense romantic and
religious to chamber music, Dr.
Mac Lean said.
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Dr. HOWARD HAHN PRACTICES “THE ART OF MATHEMATICS" by translating Ot a b,tnct
concepts of mathematical theorems Into visual presentations of art. Also Interested in art for art*
sake,” the mathematics teacher has parted two murals for his own home. Shown here is an original
abstract.
Theorems Deserve Painting,
Artist Mathematican Says
“Some mathematical theorems
are so beautiful, they deserve to
be painted,” according to Dr.
Howard Hahn, associate
professor of mathematics, who
practices “the art of
mathematics.”
Dr. Hahn has had exhibitions of
his artistic interpretations of
mathematical theorems at
Yonkers, New York, as well as at
West Georgia. He says that the
paintings give students a visual
idea of abstract concepts and that
such a method of presentation
might help to interest students
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“who hate math.”
“Mathematics is the language
of science, and an interpreter of
nature,” the math professor
explained, “and by treating it as
a hobby or a game, we can come
to some understanding of it.”
For example, pi can be com
puted by dropping nails or
shooting pistols. Dr. Hahn has
illustrated the principle in a
painting which combines two
theorems of probability: the
prediction of the number of shots
to hit within a given circle, and
the prediction of nails, dropped at
APRIL 30, 1971
random, to hit parallel lines.
Dr. Hahn also explained that
“painting” solved a
mathematical problem which
was believed impossible until
1959. That piece of art, by two
mathematicians at the Uin
versity of North Carolina, “called
the orthagonal Latin Squares ol
Order 10,” made the cover of
“Scientific American.”
MAP
Dr. Hahn worked out his own
solution to the problem, which
involves placing 10 rows of 10
soldiers so that each row and file
contain 10 different regiments
and ranks. The result is not
unlike a modern cubist painting
of contrasting squares and cir
cles.
Another of Dr. Hahn’s painted
theorems involves the
mathematical question “How
many colors are necessary for a
map?” Although it sounds like a
simple problem, it is still un
solved. The painting shows that
two colors will suffice only if all
borders are straight lines and
that at least four colors are
necessary and may not be suf
ficient.
The artist-mathematician,
from Seoul, Korea, said that he
began painting in high school, but
his math teacher told him that if
he “fooled around with art” he
might miss out in college because
the competition was so stiff.
He resumed his interest in art
when he came to the U. S. and
began taking art classes at night
school. Now this art work is not
totally confined to math. At his
home he has two of his own
murals, an oriental adapted from
a magazine picture and an
original abstract.
“The murals were fun,” he
says. “I built anew home and it
was too expensive to buy paint
ings.” Toughing, he added that
the murals are “better art. The
theorems were done hastily to
meet a deadline.”