Eric Temple Bell

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Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for the majority of his life.

As John Taine, he wrote non-fiction using his given name and story.

Early life and education

Eric Temple Bell was born in Peterhead, Scotland, as the third of three children to Helen Jane Lyall and James Bell Jr., 1884, when Eric was 15 months old. The family returned to Bedford, England, after his father died on January 4th, 1896.

Bell was educated at Bedford Modern School, where his mentor Edward Mann Langley encouraged him to continue learning mathematics. Bell returned to the United States by way of Montreal in 1902. He earned degrees from Stanford University (1904), the University of Washington (1908), and Columbia University (1912) (where he was a Cassius Jackson Keyser student).

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Career

Bell first served on the University of Washington and later at the California Institute of Technology. Howard P. Robertson was taught by Dr. Robertson at the University of Washington and encouraged him to enroll at Cal Tech for his doctoral studies.

Bell's number theory was tested; see in particular the Bell series. He attempted—but not entirely succeed) to make the traditional umbral calculus (understood at the time) as well as Blissard's "symbolic method" (logically rigorous). He did a lot of work with creating functions, which were regarded as a formal power system without concern for convergence. He is the eponym of Bell polynomials and Bell numbers of combinatorics.

Bell received the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1924 for his work in mathematical analysis. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1927. He died in Watsonville, California, in 1960.

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