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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 and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eric Temple Bell has received more than 156,370 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Eric Temple Bell is the 474th most popular mathematician (up from 510th in 2019), the 2,305th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,391st in 2019) and the 47th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Eric Temple Bell ranks 474 out of 823Before him are Anders Johan Lexell, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Pavel Urysohn, Stanisław Leśniewski, George David Birkhoff, and Edward Arthur Milne. After him are Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Jean Leray, Johann Friedrich Pfaff, Yves Meyer, and David Mumford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Eric Temple Bell ranks 138Before him are Otto Erich Deutsch, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Fyodor Sergeyev, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, and Giovanni Pastrone. After him are Alfred Saalwächter, Eleazar López Contreras, Paul Bader, Franklin Clarence Mars, Demyan Bedny, and István Friedrich. Among people deceased in 1960, Eric Temple Bell ranks 98Before him are Henny Porten, Sylvia Pankhurst, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, Erich Neumann, Johan Gunnar Andersson, and Pavel Peter Gojdič. After him are Knud Enemark Jensen, Ioannis Georgiadis, Sigurd Hoel, Nevil Shute, Margaret Sullavan, and Yury Olesha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eric Temple Bell ranks 2,305 out of 7,765Before him are John Evelyn (1620), Christabel Pankhurst (1880), Paul Smith (1946), Richard Madden (1986), Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester (1215), and Lindsay Kemp (1938). After him are Carl Palmer (1950), Samuel Morland (1625), Würzel (1949), Caradoc (470), Bob Klose (1945), and Frank Finlay (1926).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Eric Temple Bell ranks 47Before him are Ernest William Brown (1866), Thomas Wright (1711), John Hadley (1682), Thomas Bradwardine (1300), Roger Cotes (1682), and Edward Arthur Milne (1896). After him are David Mumford (1937), Harold Jeffreys (1891), John Pell (1611), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), William Kingdon Clifford (1845), and Henry Dudeney (1857).