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In July 1935, Bell signed a contract with Simon and Schuster, for a book to be titled The Lives of Mathematicians. [1] He delivered the manuscript at the beginning of November 1935 as promised, but was unhappy when the publishers made him cut about a third of it (125,000 words), and, in order to tie in with their book Men of Art (by Thomas Craven), gave it the title Men of Mathematics which he ...
Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician, educator and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. [1] He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine .
In mathematics, the Bell series is a formal power series used to study properties of arithmetical functions. Bell series were introduced and developed by Eric Temple Bell . Given an arithmetic function f {\displaystyle f} and a prime p {\displaystyle p} , define the formal power series f p ( x ) {\displaystyle f_{p}(x)} , called the Bell series ...
Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem is an unsolved minimization problem in geometry, originating in 1955 by the American applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. [1] The problem is often stated as follows: "A hiker is lost in a forest whose shape and dimensions are precisely known to him.
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics."
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[1] [2] In 1932, George Washington University honored him with a Doctorate in Science, [3] and in 1933 he was elected to join the United States National Academy of Sciences. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He has 905 academic descendants listed in the Mathematics Genealogy Project , mostly through his student Ellis Kolchin , as of May 2024. [ 4 ]