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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 ...
The lonely runner conjecture states that each runner is lonely at some time, no matter the choice of speeds. [1] This visual formulation of the conjecture was first published in 1998. [2] In many formulations, including the original by Jörg M. Wills, [3] [4] some simplifications are made.
Amby Burfoot grew up in Groton, Connecticut, where he started running at Fitch Senior High School.His high school coach, John J. Kelley (The "Younger"), was the 1957 Boston Marathon winner and two-time U.S. Olympic marathoner (1956 and 1960 Olympics,) and his influence led Burfoot to take up the marathon while still a collegian.
Roberts (right) returns a borrowed pole to Bell at the 1976 Olympic Trials. During the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials, Roberts broke his pole. His rival and then world record holder Earl Bell lent him his pole, and Roberts won the Trials with a new world record of 5.70 m. [3] At the Olympics, he and two other athletes cleared 5.50 m.
Alan Richard Bell (born 10 June 1957) is a British sprinter. [1] He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics. [2] Bell was a member of the Wakefield Harriers. [3] He started his career in the 100 metres and 200 metres, winning medals at the Yorkshire Athletics Championships and Northern Championships, before moving up to 400 ...
Following the 1980 Trials "Sandoval made attempts in subsequent marathon trials. He ran 2:12:42 for sixth place in 1984 and 2:22:37 for 27th place in 1988. In the 1992 trials in Columbus, Ohio, Sandoval popped an Achilles tendon at 8 miles and was a dnf [did not finish]. 'That was the last time I ran hard,' he says."