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
   
E. T. Bell   Name:
E. T. Bell
Type:
Mathematician
Nationality:
Scottish
Birth:
February 7, 1883
Death:
December 21, 1960
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