John Forbes Nash, in his "Autobiographical essay" in Les Prix Nobel - The Nobel Prizes 1994 (1995), edited by Tore Frängsmyr
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By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.
— John Forbes Nash
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About Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a mathematician and science fiction author, born in Scotland who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine.
About Eric Temple Bell
Eric Temple Bell (7 February 1883 – 21 December 1960) was a mathematician and science fiction author, born in Scotland who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine.
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