The Search for E. T. Bell
Subtitle: Also Known as John Taine (Spectrum)
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Published: September 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780883855089
Subjects: History of mathematics; General; Mathematicians And Their Works; Mathematics; United States; Biography/Autobiography; Mathematicians; Bell, Eric Temple; Mathematics / General; Authors, American; 1883-1960; 20th century; Bell, Eric Temple,; Biography
First sentence: Half a century after the publication of Eric Temple Bell's Men of Mathematics, I find myself driving down to Watsonville, California, a little town on the coastal plain of Monterey Bay, to meet the only son of its author.