埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔（，），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. 
 Reprint: Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1979, , 187p. – "Reprint of the ed. published by Century Co., New York" 
 The Search for Truth, Baltimore, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1934, 279p.
 Reprint: Williams and Wilkins Co, 1935
 The Handmaiden of the Sciences, 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.
 Reprint: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster paperback), 1986.  
 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, , 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.
 Reprint: Mathematical Association of America, 1990, , 326p.

学术论文 
 "Arithmetical paraphrases". In: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 22, 1921, pp. 1–30  and 198–219 
 "Arithmetical equivalents for a remarkable identity between theta functions". In: Mathematische Zeitschrift 13, 1922, pp. 146–152
 "Existence theorems on the numbers of representations of odd integers as sums of 4t + 2 squares". In: Crelles Journal 163, 1930, pp. 65–70
 "Exponential numbers". In: The American Mathematical Monthly 41, 1934, pp. 411–419

小说 

 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."

参考资料 

 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. . .
 Rothman, T. (1982). "Genius and biographers: the fictionalization of Evariste Galois". American Mathematics Monthly 89, no. 2, 84–106.

 延伸阅读

外部链接 
 Biographical sketch by Constance Reid
 
 
 Faded Page
 MAA presidents: Eric Temple 
 
  (distinct from Bell)
  (distinct from Taine)
 Author profile  in the database zbMATH

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