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Most fiction writers are, after all, primarily fiction writers", he wrote of Bell. "Some of them may show a trifle more finesse in plot handling or characterization, but none of them surpasses Bell in grandness of conception or accuracy of detail. One has always the uncanny feeling that is dealing
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Bell... had a rare gift for words as well as numbers. Those who have witnessed the deep truths of mathematics, Bell wrote, "have experienced something no jellyfish has ever felt." He had a knack for pithily summing up a man's character: Pythagoras, Bell said, whose mysticism had hobbled his
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to begin careers in mathematics. However, historians of mathematics have disputed the accuracy of much of Bell's history. In fact, Bell does not distinguish carefully between anecdote and history. He has been much criticized for romanticizing
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By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic "Men of Mathematics" by E. T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself
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John Taine, which independently invented some of the earliest devices and ideas of science fiction. His novels later also serialised in magazines.
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in probabilities, and that many of his most extravagant dreams are but pre-visions of nightmares in store for the human race.
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who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as
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mathematics, was "one-tenth genius, nine-tenths sheer fudge." And if Bell's prose was at times flowery,
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Thirty years later it was reissued by the Mathematical Association of America with an introduction by
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The fact that Wiles was stimulated in childhood by E. T. Bell's romantic personalized anecdotal book
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is in itself an index of the power which a certain view of the history of mathematics can exercise.
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has been less famous, but his biographer Constance Reid finds it has fewer weaknesses. His book on
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inspired him to continue the study of mathematics. Bell returned to the United States, by way of
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
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Rothman, T. (1982). "Genius and biographers: the fictionalization of Evariste Galois".
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Bell was part of the faculty first at the University of Washington and later at the
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While this book was under printing, he also wrote and had published another book,
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During the early 1920s, Bell wrote several long poems. He also wrote several
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which he did not like. The book inspired notable mathematicians including
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and encouraged him to enroll at Cal Tech for his doctoral studies.
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Davenport, Basil (19 October 1952), "Spacemen's Realm",
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to stereotypes, has been criticized even more severely.
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A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity
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The only idea of real mathematics that I had came from
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was intended for an essentially professional audience.
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Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer
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An Arithmetical Theory of Certain Numerical Functions
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The Search for E. T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine
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The Search for E. T. Bell: Also Known as John Taine
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(31 January 2022). 7: 1727:20th-century American mathematicians 1064:; Babbitt, Donald (June–July 2013), 1003:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U234623 294:, in 1902. He received degrees from 1812:People from Watsonville, California 1590:The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 1372:, which he finds 'almost fiction,' 1029:Reid, Constance (25 January 1993). 750:Mathematical Association of America 656:Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 2005 1742:American historians of mathematics 1722:20th-century American male writers 320:California Institute of Technology 306:(1912) (where he was a student of 195:California Institute of Technology 25: 1827:Novelists from Washington (state) 1483:The American Mathematical Monthly 821:The American Mathematical Monthly 697:Reprint: Dover Publications, 1992 376:. In 1927, he was elected to the 1797:University of Washington faculty 1737:Scottish science fiction writers 1732:American science fiction writers 1477:(October 1937). 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E. T. Bell
Eric Bell (disambiguation)

Peterhead
Watsonville, California
Stanford University
University of Washington
Columbia University
Number theory
Bell series
Bell polynomials
Bell numbers
Bell triangle
Ordered Bell numbers
BĂ´cher Memorial Prize
Mathematics
University of Washington
California Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor
Frank Nelson Cole
Cassius Keyser
Morgan Ward
Zhou Peiyuan
mathematician
science fiction writer
Peterhead
Aberdeen
factor
San Jose, California
Bedford

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