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Eric Temple Bell
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Scottish American mathematician and science fiction author (1883-1960)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1883
- Died
- 1960
- Works
- 42
Top works
- The magic of numbers
- Dangerous vegetables
- Les grands mathématiciens ...
- Numerology
- Büyük matematikçiler
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1990
acoustic rockalternative metalalternative rockestados unidosgrungehard rock
Discography
- Creep1992
- Sex Type Thing1992
- Core1992
- Plush1993
- Purple1994
- Vasoline1994
- Tiny Music… Songs From the Vatican Gift Shop1996
- №41999
- Shangri‐La Dee Da2001
- Stone Temple Pilots2010
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
· 2005 · cited 47,852x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,764x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,693x
- The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 25,627x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,778x
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Quotes
- “The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.”
- “Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Then, in the alleged proof, be alert for inexplicit assumptions. Euclid's notorious oversights drove this lesson home.”
- “Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”
- “The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”
- “Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.”
- “The so-called obvious was repeatedly scrutinized from every angle and was frequently found to be not obvious but false. "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1883-02-07 ) 7 February 1883, Peterhead , Scotland
- Died
- 21 December 1960 (1960-12-21) (aged 77), Watsonville, California , U.S.
- 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 , Men of Mathematics
- Awards
- Bôcher Memorial Prize (1924)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Washington , California Institute of Technology
- Doctoral advisor
- Frank Nelson Cole , Cassius Keyser
- Doctoral students
- Morgan Ward , Zhou Peiyuan
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- date of birth
- 1883-02-07
- date of death
- 1960-12-21
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- Eric Temple Bell
- pseudonym
- John Taine
- name in native language
- Eric Temple Bell
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Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a mathematician, educator 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.
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1883 births1960 deaths20th-century American historians20th-century American male writers20th-century American mathematicians20th-century American novelists20th-century Scottish writersAmerican historians of mathematicsAmerican male novelistsAmerican science fiction writersCalifornia Institute of Technology facultyColumbia University alumniCombinatorialistsMathematics popularizersMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyMembers of the United States National Academy of SciencesNovelists from CaliforniaNovelists from Washington (state)People educated at Bedford Modern SchoolPeople from PeterheadPeople from Watsonville, CaliforniaPresidents of the Mathematical Association of AmericaScottish emigrants to the United StatesScottish mathematicians