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E. T. Bell

Scottish Mathematician

Born: Feb 7, 1883

Died: Dec 21, 1960

After Any Fifty Marks Mathematics Past

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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics. E. T. Bell

Mathematics Dangerous Word Most Obvious

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. E. T. Bell

Fitness Art Mathematics Creative Simplicity Feeling Past Sense Guided Indefinable Rather Only Inspired Generality Prospect Ultimate Mathematicians Than Any In The Past Usefulness Now Things Symmetry

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth. E. T. Bell

Truth Science Pretension Absolute Absolute Truth Makes Eternal

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. E. T. Bell

Rare Half Meeting Indeed Papers Out About More Understands Mathematical Mathematician Than Really Fifty Who Brief Dozen Presented

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. E. T. Bell

Mathematics Possibly More Abstract Longer Also Practical Becomes Therefore Lives

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. E. T. Bell

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