Eric Temple Bell was a Scottish-born mathematician best known for his history of mathematics book Men of Mathematics. He was born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire on 7 February 1883 and died in Watsonville, California on 21 December 1960. The Bell numbers, which count the ways of partitioning a set, are named after him because he wrote about them in the 1930s, following a 1934 paper in which he studied the Bell polynomials, an example of a result carrying a name that is not strictly its first discoverer's.
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Eric Temple Bell was a Scottish-born mathematician best known for his history of mathematics book: Men of Mathematics .
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Eric Temple Bell was a Scottish-born mathematician best known for his history of mathematics book: Men of Mathematics .
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Bell confided in Hotelling that if he had not sunk fifteen years of his life into number theory, he would have loved to undertake research into relativity theory.
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The Bell numbers are named after Eric Temple Bell, who wrote about them in 1938, following up a 1934 paper in which he studied the Bell polynomials
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