The title refers to a man called by John Baez
“The infamous pseudohistorian Eric Temple Bell.”
(See my post The Magpie.)
Today the American Mathematical Society (AMS) has
an obituary for Donald Babbitt (1936-2020), who
reportedly died on October 10.
Babbitt is the co-author of an article on Bell from the
June/July 2013 AMS Notices .