Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Eric Temple Bell
Born: February 7, 1883
Died: December 21, 1960 (aged 77)
Bio: Eric Temple Bell was a Scottish-born mathematician 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.
Known for:
- Men of Mathematics (1937)
- The magic of numbers (1946)
- The last problem
- Mathematics, queen and servant of science (1951)
- The development of mathematics (1940)