Carl Benjamin Boyer
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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.
[edit] Notes
- ^ David Foster Wallace. "An excerpt from Everything and More". Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ "Topics". Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ "Relativity Simply Explained". Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ "The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics". Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
- ^ "Scripta Mathematica". Retrieved on 2007-10-21.
- ^ "Elogé: Carl B. Boyer". Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ "Elogé: Carl B. Boyer". Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1954 Fellow Page". Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
- ^ "Columbia College Bulletin". Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
