Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer
For other people named Eric Bell, see Eric Bell (disambiguation).
Eric Temple Bell
1931 drawing of Eric Temple Bell
Born
(1883-02-07)7 February 1883
Peterhead, Scotland
Died
21 December 1960(1960-12-21) (aged 77)
Watsonville, California, U.S.
Nationality
Scottish
Education
Stanford University University of Washington Columbia University (Ph.D.)
Known for
Number theory Bell series Bell polynomials Bell numbers Bell triangle Ordered Bell numbers
Awards
Bôcher Memorial Prize (1924)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Washington California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor
Frank Nelson Cole Cassius Keyser
Doctoral students
Morgan Ward Zhou Peiyuan
Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine.[1]
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EricTempleBell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most...
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mathematics, the Bell polynomials, named in honor of EricTempleBell, are used in the study of set partitions. They are related to Stirling and Bell numbers....
connection to the Bell numbers, which may be found on both sides of the triangle, and which are in turn named after EricTempleBell. The Bell triangle has...
Sylvester), who used the technique extensively. In the 1930s and 1940s, EricTempleBell attempted to set the umbral calculus on a rigorous footing. In the...
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can be said to have done a considerable disservice to the profession. EricBell was criticized in 1983 for incorrectly ascribing the origin of spacetime...
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agree that Archimedes was the finest mathematician from antiquity. EricTempleBell, for instance, wrote: Any list of the three “greatest” mathematicians...
the Bell series is a formal power series used to study properties of arithmetical functions. Bell series were introduced and developed by EricTemple Bell...
to imply that she was of Jewish ancestry. According to biographers EricTempleBell, Cantor was of Jewish descent, although both parents were baptized...
stopped at his local library where he found a book The Last Problem, by EricTempleBell, about the theorem. Fascinated by the existence of a theorem that was...
ISBN 0-7624-1922-9. Stephen Hawking, 2005. God Created the Integers. p. xi. EricTempleBell, 1986. Men of Mathematics, Simon and Schuster, New York. p. 477 v t...
system, and was strongly influenced by the book Men of Mathematics by EricTempleBell. Politically, Dyson said he was "brought up as a socialist". From 1936...
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supervised only two PhDs, but they both proved quite consequential: EricTempleBell and the logician Emil Post. He became a member of the American board...
fiction novellas by author John Taine (pseudonym of American writer EricTempleBell). It was first published in 1949 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc...
Taine (1828–1893), French critic and historian John Taine, pen name of EricTempleBell (1883–1960), Scottish novelist Charles Foster Taine, fictional character...
years of the twentieth century. In his "Development of Mathematics", EricTempleBell offers his judgement on the status of modern triangle geometry in 1940...
Michigan Columbia University American Mathematical Society Doctoral advisor Felix Klein Doctoral students EricTempleBell George Abram Miller Louis Weisner...
science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of EricTempleBell). The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine...