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Gleason, a Yale graduate of the Class of 1942, recently received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his contribution to the solution of "Hilbert's Fifth Problem." The problem has been important in mathematical theory for 50 years...
Andrew M. Gleason, assistant professor of Mathematics, received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize at the association's annual meeting in St. Louis on November 30 for his paper discussing "natural coordinate systems." His solution to a problem that was first propounded in 1900 by the great modern mathematician David Hilbert, is expected to provide a unified field theory between the forces operating within the universe as a whole and the forces within the nuclei of the atoms. Dr. Albert Einstein has been seeking such a theory for the past 30 years...
...Baldwin-Wallace's Hilbert T. Ficken, 67, head of the modern language department, who will go to Furman University in Greenville...
Just as the ushers were getting ready to take up the collection last week at the Pleasant Hill Christian Holiness Church near Elkton, Md., the Rev. Paul Hilbert saw an ominous sight. A man in blackface makeup, carrying a rifle pressed close against his side, slipped through the door and stood waiting at the back of the church...
...Pastor Hilbert promptly struck up a song which his flock often uses on fellowship occasions; he knew the congregation would take the familiar...