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E. T. Bell

mathematician, historian of mathematics, novelist, writer, science fiction writer

1883  – 1960

Eric Temple Bell was a mathematician, educator and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine.

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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

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