Alfred Hooper: educator, lecturer, writer

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THE REDPATH BUREAU 
Presents

ALFRED HOOPER
 EDUCATOR, LECTURER, WRITER (England, Canada, United States)



AS THE PILOT IN HIS POPULAR LECTURE




The Rives Mathematics



This former headmaster of a school in England, popular teacher, and distinctive writer, comes to the lecture platform with an engaging manner and pleasant way that takes an audience into his confidence in a mathematical adventure.




His discussion challenges students, parents, engineers, bankers, other business and professional men, teachers, scientific illiterates, haters of mathematics, etc.




Reproduced from Hooper, 
The River Mathematics
 by permission of HENRY HOLT & CO., Inc.



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EVER-WIDENING KNOWLEDGE OF THE UNIVERSE




A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH



Author, educator, lecturer, born in London, England.  B.A. with honors, Durham, England.  Graduate degree.  Headmaster, Hillstone School, Malvern, England.  Educational officer Air Navy School R A F. Canada, — served as Squadron-leader.  Also, Navy Air instructor, Williams College, Mass.





BOOKS & VISUAL AIDS



Mathematics Refresher,
 (sold in England and Canada, best seller in the United States for thirteen weeks) 
The River of Mathematics
.  Another popular book comes from the press this Spring.  American Council of Education's 
Commission on Motion Pictures
, produced Alfred Hooper's mathematical film.





LECTURE CONTENT



Mathematics is the key that opens up the treasure-house of modern science.  It is bringing closer and closer to us the power to control forces of nature that are utterly beyond our present imagination.  To understand the part played by mathematics in the rapidly unfolding tale of human endeavor is essential for men and women of today, and even more so for men and women of tomorrow.  The mightly flood on which now sail the proud ships Science, Engineering, and Aeronautics has grown to its present proportions through the development of mathematical ideas and processes over thousands of years.  By now the tides and currents in the river of mathematics are complicated enough to require a 
pilot.
 Alfred Hooper is the pilot.





PRAISED BY WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE



Bennett A. Cerf placed 
A Mathematics Refresher
 among 
books that shook the world.


Saturday Evening Post, April 3, 1943.




Sinclair Lewis, — 
Mr. Hooper has so illuminated the subject that suddenly, even for a scientific illiterate like myself, it becomes comprehensible and interesting.




Alfred Hooper's discussion merits the approval of mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike.
 Prof. Charles H. Butler, Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan College, Author.





RECOGNITION BY THE PRESS



A. Spectorsky, Chicago Sun


— Gives possibly for the first time in your life a scientific grasp of a subject that is too often taught 
in vacuo.




Denning Duer Miller, New York Herald-Tribune


— I can think of no better way for the mothers and fathers of children growing up in the post-war atomic age to fill in the gaps in their grasp of mathematics.




Post Inquirer, Oakland, Calif.


— Alfred Hooper dramatizes the whole field of mathematics and makes dry material inspiring and interesting.




Boston Daily Globe


— He provides as easy and pleasant a ride as seems possible down the river of basic, practical, historical mathematical fact.




New York Sunday Mirror


— He presents this complex subject with horizon unlimited for both views, past and ahead of us.





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