Eric Temple Bell

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5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,852x

2. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 43,764x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 34,693x

4. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 25,627x

5. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,778x

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Quotes

• “The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.”
• “Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. Then, in the alleged proof, be alert for inexplicit assumptions. Euclid's notorious oversights drove this lesson home.”
• “Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”
• “The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”
• “Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.”
• “The so-called obvious was repeatedly scrutinized from every angle and was frequently found to be not obvious but false. "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1883-02-07 ) 7 February 1883, Peterhead , Scotland

Died

21 December 1960 (1960-12-21) (aged 77), Watsonville, California , U.S.

Education

Stanford University , University of Washington , Columbia University (Ph.D.)

Known for

Number theory , Bell series , Bell polynomials , Bell numbers , Bell triangle , Ordered Bell numbers , Men of Mathematics

Awards

Bôcher Memorial Prize (1924)

Fields

Mathematics

Institutions

University of Washington , California Institute of Technology

Doctoral advisor

Frank Nelson Cole , Cassius Keyser

Doctoral students

Morgan Ward , Zhou Peiyuan

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