Carl Benjamin Boyer

Carl Benjamin Boyer
Born(1906-11-03)November 3, 1906
Hellertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1]
DiedApril 26, 1976(1976-04-26) (aged 69)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationHistorian of mathematics

Carl Benjamin Boyer (November 3, 1906 – April 26, 1976) was an American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics. Novelist David Foster Wallace called him the "Gibbon of math history".[2] It has been written that he was one of few historians of mathematics of his time to "keep open links with contemporary history of science."[3]

  1. ^ Dauben, Joseph Warren and Scriba, Christoph J. (2002) Writing the history of mathematics: its historical development, Birkhäuser. Cf. pp.380-381 for the biography of Boyer.
  2. ^ Wallace, David Foster. "An excerpt from Everything and More". Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
  3. ^ Gray, Jeremy (2016) "Histories of Modern Mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s" in Remmert, Volker R.; Schneider, Martina; and Kragh Sørensen, Henrik (eds.) Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries Birkhäuser. p.161. ISBN 9783319396491