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JOHN TAINE is the nom de plume of the prominent research mathematician,
Dr. Eric Temple Bell. Under his own name he has had published numerous
popular books on mathematics and science. Under his pen-name he is the
author of fifteen published science-fiction novels.
Dr. Bell was born in Peterhead, Scotland, in 1883. After attending
various schools in England, he came to the United States (of which he
is a naturalized citizen) in 1902, graduating from Stanford University
in 1904. He took his master's degree at the University of Washington,
and attained his doctorate in mathematics at Columbia University in
1912.
Since 1926 he has been Professor of Mathematics at the California
Institute of Technology.
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