埃里克·坦普爾·貝爾

埃里克·坦普爾·貝爾（Eric Temple Bell，1883年2月7日－1960年12月21日），蘇格蘭出生的英國數學家和科幻小說家，他一生的大部分時間都居住在美國。貝爾發表非虛構作品時使用本名，發表小說時使用筆名約翰·泰恩（John Taine）。

## 著作

### 非小說

- 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
- 《數學大師》 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.

### 學術論文

- "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

### 小說

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- 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)

### 詩歌

- The Singer (1916)

## 語錄

- "Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

## 參考資料

來源

- 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.

延伸閱讀

## 外部連結

- Biographical sketch by Constance Reid
- Faded Page
- MAA presidents: Eric Temple
- no93026266 (distinct from Bell)
- n50006509 (distinct from Taine)
- Author profile in the database zbMATH

## 基本資料

- 日語原文：埃里克·坦普爾·貝爾、Eric Temple Bell
- 出生日期：1883年2月7日
- 出生地：蘇格蘭彼得黑德
- 逝世日期：1960年12月21日
- 逝世地：美國加利福尼亞州沃森維爾
- 居住地：美國
- 母校：史丹福大學、哥倫比亞大學 (Ph.D.)
- 知名於：數論、貝爾級數、貝爾多項式、貝爾數s、Bell triangle、Ordered Bell numbers
- 獲獎：博謝紀念獎 (1924)
- 研究領域：數學
- 機構：華盛頓大學、加州理工學院
- 博士導師：Frank Nelson Cole、Cassius Keyser
- 博士生：霍華德·珀西·羅伯遜、Morgan Ward、周培源