Quote of the day
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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)