Colin Bennett

Carl Brogden helped himself to a hat-trick and there were further goals from Colin Bennett, Dean Thomas and James Nutt as Radclyffe poured forward at every opportunity.

Colin Bennett, Ph.D., assistant dean for mathematics and research at USC, has spent much time in Charleston this summer doing his own research on Wallace, continuing historical work which began in the late '80s as a prelude to writing a history of USC's Math Department for the school's bicentennial.
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I'd read some of the history of Wallace at the university which called him 'very odd and very ordinary.' I found him to be anything but," said Bennett.
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He was even invited to Rome to head up Vatican observatory," Bennett said."He was a distinguished scientist for the period.He was not appreciated at the time for what he did."

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He was one of the budding young talents in the United States," Bennett added."He described steam engines first-hand for Southern Review.He called them the wave of the future and advocated their use, along with canals."The USC dean has also uncovered documents that the Jesuit priest had submitted a patent to then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams for a steam engine of his own.

In 1818, Wallace's reputation as a mathematician prompted officials in the Department of State to consult him on the calculation of the exact boundary between the United States and Canada as determined by the Treaty of Ghent.Bennett explained that Wallace used astronomy to determine the border of the two countries for the treaty.
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He writes to the astronomer royal in Britain and to major mathematicians of the time, such as those at Harvard," said Bennett

After Wallace departed the Columbia school in 1834, his replacement was not as stellar, according to Bennett, who said, "[Wallace] is responsible for building the institution.
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While Bennett originally planned to author a history of the Mathematics Department at USC, Wallace and the emerging South Carolina College have proven easier to write about.