Eric Temple Bell - Biography, Writing career, Works

Mathematician, born in Aberdeen, NE Scotland, UK. Emigrating to the USA in 1902, he taught for most of his career at the California Institute of Technology (1926–53). He contributed significantly to numerical functions, analytic number theory, multiple periodic functions, and Diophantine analysis. He published Men of Mathematics (1937), 17 science fiction books, short stories, and poetry.

Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883, Peterhead, Scotland - December 21, 1960, Watsonville, California) was a mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland who lived in the USA from 1903 until his death.

Biography

He attended Stanford University and Columbia University (where he was a student of Cassius Jackson Keyser) and was on the faculty first at the University of Washington and later at the California Institute of Technology.

Writing career

Bell wrote a book of biographical sketches titled Men of Mathematics, which is still in print. In 1993 Constance Reid wrote a biography, The Search for E.T.

Works

Non-fiction books

An Arithmetical Theory of Certain Numerical Functions, Seattle Washington, The University, 1915, 50p. The Cyclotomic Quinary Quintic, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The New Era Printing Company, 1912, 97p. Algebraic Arithmetic, New York, American Mathematical Society, 1927, 180p. The Search for Truth, Baltimore, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934, 279p. Reprint: Williams and Wilkins Co, 1935 Man and His Lifebelts, New York, Reynal & Unwin Ltd, 1935, 2nd printing 1946 Reprint: Kessinger Publishing, 2005 Men of Mathematics, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1937, 592p. The Development of Mathematics, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1945, 637p. Reprint: New York, McGraw-Hill, 1945 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 (1951) The Last Problem, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1961, 308p. Queen Of The Sciences

Scholarly papers

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Novels

The Purple Sapphire (1924) The Gold Tooth (1927) Quayle's Invention (1927) Green Fire (1928) The Greatest Adventure (1929) The Crystal Horde (1930) The Iron Star (1930) The Time Stream (1931) Seeds of Life (1931) Before the Dawn (1934) The Forbidden Garden (1947) The Crystal Horde (1952) G.O.G.