埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

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埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔
Eric Temple Bell
Bell as pictured in Wonder Stories in 1931
出生(1883-02-07)1883年2月7日
 英国苏格兰彼得黑德
逝世1960年12月21日(1960歲—12—21)(77歲)
 美國加利福尼亚州沃森维尔
居住地 美國
国籍 英国
母校斯坦福大学
哥伦比亚大学 (Ph.D.)
知名于数论
贝尔级数
贝尔多项式
贝尔数s
Bell triangle
Ordered Bell numbers
奖项博谢纪念奖 (1924)
科学生涯
研究领域数学
机构华盛顿大学
加州理工学院
博士導師Frank Nelson Cole
Cassius Keyser
博士生霍华德·珀西·罗伯逊
Morgan Ward
周培源

埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔(英語:Eric Temple Bell,1883年2月7日—1960年12月21日),苏格兰出生的英国数学家和科幻小说家,他一生的大部分时间都居住在美国。贝尔发表非虚构作品时使用本名,发表小说时使用笔名约翰·泰恩(John Taine)。

著作

非小说

  • An Arithmetical Theory of Certain Numerical Functions, Seattle Washington, The University, 1915, 50p. PDF/DjVu copy from Internet Archive.
  • The Cyclotomic Quinary Quintic, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The New Era Printing Company, 1912, 97p.
  • Algebraic Arithmetic, New York, American Mathematical Society, 1927, 180p.
  • Debunking Science, Seattle, University of Washington book store, 1930, 40p.
  • The Queen of the Sciences, Stechert, 1931, 138p.
  • Numerology, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Co., 1933, 187p. LCCN 33-6808
    • Reprint: Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1979, ISBN 0-88355-774-6, 187p. – "Reprint of the ed. published by Century Co., New York" LCCN 78-13855
  • The Search for Truth, Baltimore, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934, 279p.
    • Reprint: Williams and Wilkins Co, 1935
  • The Handmaiden of the Sciences页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Williams & Wilkins, 1937, 216p.
  • Man and His Lifebelts, New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1938, 340p.
    • Reprint: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935, 2nd printing 1946
    • Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 2005
  • 数学大师Men of Mathematics, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1937, 592p.
  • The Development of Mathematics, New York, McGraw–Hill, 1940, 637p.
    • Second Edition: New York, McGraw–Hill, 1945, 637p.
    • Reprint: Dover Publications, 1992
  • The Magic of Numbers, Whittlesey House, 1946, 418p.
    • Reprint: New York, Dover Publications, 1991, ISBN 0-486-26788-1, 418p.
    • Reprint: Sacred Science Institute, 2006
  • Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science, McGraw-Hill, 1951, 437p.
  • The Last Problem, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1961, 308p.

学术论文

小说

紫色的蓝宝石 于1948年8月重印
  • The Purple Sapphire (1924)
  • The Gold Tooth (1927)
  • Quayle's Invention (1927)
  • Green Fire (1928)
  • The Greatest Adventure (1929)
  • The Iron Star (1930)
  • The White Lily (1930)
  • The Time Stream (1931)
  • Seeds of Life (1931)
  • Before the Dawn (1934)
  • Tomorrow (1939)
  • The Forbidden Garden (1947)
  • The Cosmic Geoids and One Other (1949)
  • The Crystal Horde (1952)
  • G.O.G. 666 (1954)

诗歌

  • The Singer (1916)

语录

  • "Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics."[1]

参考资料

  1. ^ Beck, Matthias; Marchesi, Gerald; Pixton, Dennis; Sabalka, Lucas, A First Course in Complex Analysis (PDF): 26, 2002–2012 [2018-06-27], (原始内容存档 (PDF)于2014-05-08) .
来源
  • Reid, Constance (1993). The Search for E. T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America. x + 372 pp. ISBN 0-88385-508-9. OCLC 29190602.
  • Rothman, T. (1982). "Genius and biographers: the fictionalization of Evariste Galois". American Mathematics Monthly 89, no. 2, 84–106.
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