Eric temple bell biography of barack obama

(b. Aberdeen, Scotland, 7 February ; d. Watsonville, California, 21 December ) mathematics.

The younger son of James Bell, of a London commercial family, and Helen Lyndsay Lyall, whose family were classical scholars, he was tutored before entering the Bedford Modern School, where a remarkable teacher, E.

M. Langley, inspired his lifelong interest in elliptic functions and number theory, Bell migrated to the United States in “to escape being shoved into Woolwich or the India Civil Service” (as he later explained) and was able to “cover all the mathematics offered” at Stanford and graduate Phi Beta Kappa in two years.

A single year at the University of Washington netted an M. A. in ; another at columbia sufficed for the Ph. D. in , The years between he spent as a ranch hand, mule skinner, surveyor, school teacher, and partner in an unsuccessful telephone company.

In he married Jessie L. Brown, who died in They had one son, Taine Temple bell, Who became a phy