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Carl Benjamin Boyer



Carl Benjamin Boyer

Carl Benjamin Boyer (November 3, 1906 – April 26, 1976) has been called the "Gibbon of math history;"[1] he was also a historian of science.[2] He wrote the books History of Analytic Geometry, The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development,[3] A History of Mathematics, and The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics.[4] He served as book-review editor of Scripta Mathematica.[5]

Boyer was valedictorian of his high school class. He received an A.B. from Columbia College in 1928 and an M.A. in 1929.[6]

He married the former Marjorie Duncan Nice.[7]

He was a 1954 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.[8]

He died of a heart attack in New York.

The Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize was established by his widow in his memory[9] to be awarded to the Columbia University undergraduate writing the best essay on any scientific or mathematical topic.

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  1. ^ David Foster Wallace. An excerpt from Everything and More. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  2. ^ Topics. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  3. ^ Relativity Simply Explained. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  4. ^ The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
  5. ^ Scripta Mathematica. Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
  6. ^ Elogé: Carl B. Boyer. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  7. ^ Elogé: Carl B. Boyer. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
  8. ^ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1954 Fellow Page. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
  9. ^ Columbia College Bulletin. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.

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