Carl Benjamin Boyer : American Historian of Sciences, Master Historian of Mathematics, Columbia Scholar

November 3, 1906 — April 26, 1976

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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."

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November 3, 1906

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April 26, 1976

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