Footnote:

And it does not seem beyond the point to stress that E.T. Bell (1883-1960) was a rather successful science fiction author (under a pseudonym: John Taine). See Constance Reid, The Search for E. T. Bell: Also Known as John Taine (Washington, DC, Mathematical Association of America, 1993). 

 

Calculating the Limits of Poetic License:
Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
Leo Corry - Tel Aviv University