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Eric Temple Bell

1883 - 1960

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Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a Scottish-born 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eric Temple Bell is the 470th most popular mathematician (down from 466th in 2019), the 2,288th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,181st in 2019) and the 49th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eric Temple Bell ranks 470 out of 1,004. Before him are Nikolai Luzin, Campanus of Novara, Ismaël Bullialdus, Abraham Fraenkel, August Leopold Crelle, and Michael O. Rabin. After him are Pavel Urysohn, Charles Julien Brianchon, William Sealy Gosset, Hermann Hankel, Robert Langlands, and W. V. D. Hodge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Eric Temple Bell ranks 126. Before him are Diego Martínez Barrio, Rudolf Weigl, Indalecio Prieto, Nikolai Luzin, Enrico Toselli, and Rudolf Spielmann. After him are Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz, Richard Ruoff, Andrei Bubnov, Václav Talich, Cho Man-sik, and Edwin Sutherland. Among people deceased in 1960, Eric Temple Bell ranks 87. Before him are Véra Clouzot, Auguste Herbin, Dirk Jan de Geer, Leó Weiner, Ioannis Georgiadis, and Feroze Gandhi. After him are Chris Bristow, Johnny Horton, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Massimo Bontempelli, Harold Spencer Jones, and Alan Stacey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Temple Bell ranks 2,288 out of 8,785. Before him are John Williams (1903), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Shane MacGowan (1957), Elihu Thomson (1853), Roger Fry (1866), and Matt Lucas (1974). After him are Bert Williams (1920), Riz Ahmed (1982), Damon Albarn (1968), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Michael Sheen (1969), and William Sealy Gosset (1876).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Eric Temple Bell ranks 49. Before him are Peter Barlow (1776), Edmund Gunter (1581), Roger Cotes (1682), Thomas Henderson (1798), William Jones (1675), and Mary Cartwright (1900). After him are William Sealy Gosset (1876), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), James Stirling (1692), Ian Stewart (1945), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), and Thomas Bradwardine (1300).

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