Mathematician:Eric Temple Bell

Mathematician
Scottish mathematician now more famous for his popular work on the history of mathematics.

Did research in number theory and analysis, and (less than successfully) worked on putting umbral calculus on a sound logical footing.

Also noted (in certain circles) for writing science fiction (under the pseudonym John Taine) and poetry.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: 7 Feb 1883, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
 * Died: 21 Dec 1960, Watsonville, California, USA

Theorems and Definitions

 * Bell Polynomial
 * Bell Numbers
 * Ordered Bell Numbers

Books and Papers

 * 1912: The Cyclotomic Quinary Quintic
 * 1915: An Arithmetical Theory of Certain Numerical Functions
 * 1921: Arithmetical paraphrases
 * 1927: Algebraic Arithmetic
 * 1930: Debunking Science
 * 1934: The Search for Truth
 * 1938: Man and His Lifebelts
 * 1937:
 * 1945: The Development of Mathematics
 * 1946: The Magic of Numbers
 * 1951: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science
 * 1961: The Last Problem (posthumous)
 * 1979: Numerology (posthumous)

as well as a great pile of science fiction novels, which he wrote under a pseudonym (John Taine) as well he might.