Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Men of Mathematics
As part of my ongoing investigation into the vagaries and varieties of human genius, I am currently reading E. T. Bell's "Men of Mathematics" (1937) as a counterweight to Bloom's analysis of merely verbal genius. Bell looks at 33 mathematicians, plus 8 members of the Bernoulli family (which I will discount from any national distribution as being problematical: are they Swiss or Belgian or Flemish? Any advice on this question will be appreciated.)
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