History of Mathematics

By Carl Benjamin Boyer (2011)

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(1906 - 1976)

American Historian of Sciences, Master Historian of Mathematics, Columbia Scholar

: An American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics. Novelist David Foster Wallace called him the "Gibbon of math history". 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." (From: Wikipedia.org.)

(1933 - 2017)

German-American Historian of Mathematics who became the First Curator of Mathematical Instruments at the Smithsonian Institution

: A German-American historian of mathematics who became the first curator of mathematical instruments at the Smithsonian Institution. (From: Wikipedia.org.)

"A History of Mathematics," by Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

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2011
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