[9] He was also a contributor to the second edition of the textbook Elementary Number Theory, a translation into English of Edmund Landau's German language text Elementare Zahlentheorie.
[10] Bateman attended Upper Moreland High School, which recognized his accomplishments by inducting him into its Hall of Fame in 1999.
He was department head at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 15 years, and had a flair for the dramatic, which led to his being called P. T. Barnum.
In the Christmas skit one year the students had a character called Batman, with aluminum foil on his head to simulate baldness.
It happened that Philippe Tondeur was fluent in those three languages, and so Bateman gave him the job of examining all the candidates.