Abstract :
Matt Pakkala, senior in electrical engineering at Montana State College, has been awarded the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, England. He was selected from a group of ten candidates from the colleges in the state of Montana, and will begin his work at Oxford next October to read for a degree in mathematics which he expects to receive after three years´ study. Mr. Pakkala is the first student of Montana State College to receive the Rhodes Scholarship, and is considered to be the most brilliant mathematician who ever attended that school. The authorities at Oxford have granted him senior standing without examination.
