Eric Temple Bell was born in 1883 in Aberdeen, Scotland. His early education was obtained in England. Coming to the United States in 1902, he entered Stanford University and took his A.B. degree in 1904. In 1908 he was teaching fellow at the University of Washington, where he took his A.M. degree in 1909. In 1911 he entered Columbia University, where he took his Ph.D. degree in 1912. He returned to the University of Washington as instructor in mathematics and became full professor in 1921. During the summers of 1924-28 he taught at the University of Chicago, and in 1926 (first half) at Harvard University, when he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Bell was a former President of the Mathematical Association of America, a former Vice President of the American Mathematical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was on the editorial staffs of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, the American Journal of Mathematics, and the Journal of the Philosophy of Science. He belonged to The American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa, and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. He won the Bôcher Prize of the American Mathematical Society for his research work. His twelve published books include The Purple Sapphire (1924), Algebraic Arithmetic (1927), Debunking Science, and Queen of the Sciences (1931), Numerology (1933), and The Search for Truth (1934).
Dr. Bell died in December 1960, just before the publication of his latest book, The Last Problem.
Here is the classic, much-read introduction to the craft and history of mathematics by E.T. Bell, a leading figure in mathematics in America for half a century. Men of Mathematics accessibly explains the major mathematics, from the geometry of the Greeks through Newton's calculus and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension. In addition, the book goes beyond pure mathematics to present a series of engrossing biographies of the great mathematicians -- an extraordinary number of whom lived bizarre or unusual lives. Finally, Men of Mathematics is also a history of ideas, tracing the majestic development of mathematical thought from ancient times to the twentieth century. This enduring work's clear, often humorous way of dealing with complex ideas makes it an ideal book for the non-mathematician.
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我超喜歡高斯,他絕倫的天纔古今無人能超越,計算能力近乎歐拉,創新靈感無窮無盡,集實踐與理論於一身,古典數學的最後一人,現代數學的第一人,第一個嚴格主義者,內蘊微分幾何的創始人,雙麯幾何第一人,橢圓函數第一人,最小二乘法第一人,很多很多數學發明的第一人,19世...
評分說實話,對這本眾口稱贊的書有點失望,不對我的胃口。主要不喜歡Bell略顯誇誇其談自以為是的敘述語氣(比如他認為學語言比研究數學低等),仿佛他的評述就是對數學傢的蓋棺定論一樣。本想給3星,考慮翻譯水平的低劣,隻給2星。
評分所有通嚮人類偉大的創造力的因素中最強大的是什麼,是人的思維。 E·T·貝爾所著《數學精英》嚮我們展示瞭人類中最偉大的數學傢的思維曆程。 數學,自然科學的的無冕之王。那些偉大的哲學傢們把他當成自然界的最奇妙的語言。的確,自然界的規律如此美妙,人類發明瞭現在的數學...
評分有些章節還可以,但有些就很平淡。數學內容過於簡略,尤其是後半部分(可能是過於專業的緣故)。當然,糟糕的翻譯加劇瞭這些缺點。
評分我超喜歡高斯,他絕倫的天纔古今無人能超越,計算能力近乎歐拉,創新靈感無窮無盡,集實踐與理論於一身,古典數學的最後一人,現代數學的第一人,第一個嚴格主義者,內蘊微分幾何的創始人,雙麯幾何第一人,橢圓函數第一人,最小二乘法第一人,很多很多數學發明的第一人,19世...
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故事化,強調數學大廈是由天纔構建的,傳奇色彩。譯者太多瞭,數學所的幾位老師譯的章節還算好,其他部分很不專業
評分故事化,強調數學大廈是由天纔構建的,傳奇色彩。譯者太多瞭,數學所的幾位老師譯的章節還算好,其他部分很不專業
評分故事化,強調數學大廈是由天纔構建的,傳奇色彩。譯者太多瞭,數學所的幾位老師譯的章節還算好,其他部分很不專業
評分故事化,強調數學大廈是由天纔構建的,傳奇色彩。譯者太多瞭,數學所的幾位老師譯的章節還算好,其他部分很不專業
評分故事化,強調數學大廈是由天纔構建的,傳奇色彩。譯者太多瞭,數學所的幾位老師譯的章節還算好,其他部分很不專業
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