Constance Reid presents a copy of "ET Bell" to Prof. Bruce Lind	Constance Reid with (l to r) Richard Fast, Bruce Lind, Matt Pickard

Biographical Information

• Author's Note, from the 4th Edition of From Zero to Infinity, 1992
• Being Julia Robinson's Sister, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 1996, 1486-1492.
• Interview, Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Albers and Alexanderson, Birkhauser, 1985, 270-280.

Awards and Prizes

• Communications Award from the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, 1998
• Mathematical Association of America's Beckenbach Book Prize, 1996
• Honorable Mention, Professional/Scholarly Division, Association of American Publishers, 1993
• The Mathematical Association of America's George Pólya Award, 1987

• Julia (MAA Spectrum, 1996) [Film Version]
• The Search for ET Bell (MAA Spectrum, 1993)
• ICM: International Mathematical Congresses (Springer, 1986)
• Neyman (Springer, 1998; originally, Springer, 1982)
• Courant (Copernicus 1996; originally Springer, 1976)
• Hilbert (Copernicus 1996; originally Springer, 1970)
• A Long Way from Euclid (in press; originally Thos. Y Crowell, 1963)
• From Zero to Infinity (MAA, 1992; originally Thos. Y Crowell, 1955)

E. T. Bell In Washington
Mathematics and Computer Science Seminar
Wednesday, November 6, 4 P.M., Thompson 124

Long before he became celebrated for his best selling MEN OF MATHEMATICS, Bell spent 14 years (1912-1926) on the faculty at the University of Washington (plus the year 1907-1908, when he took a very strange master's degree there). These were years of great change in higher education in the State. They were also important years in Bell's mathematical career, more important really than his later, and longer, tenure at Caltech. Those who think of him merely as the author of MEN OF MATHEMATICS will be surprised by Bell the mathematician.

The Pulitzer Prize Play "Proof" - in Real Life
Thompson Hall Science and Mathematics Seminar
Thursday, November 7, 4 P.M., Thompson 126

Following the solution of David Hilbert's tenth problem in 1970, Julia Robinson became the first woman mathematician to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the first woman to serve as president of the American Mathematical Society. The strategy pursued to solve "H10" and the roles of all the participants will be simply explained, followed by a "sampler" of work to date on a new film "Julia Robinson and the Solution of Hilbert's Tenth Problem" by George Csicsery ("N Is a Number").

Profs. Robert Beezer (Chair), Martin Jackson, John Riegsecker, and David Scott

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