Carl Benjamin Boyer

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

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

He married the former Marjorie Duncan Nice.

He was a 1954 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.

He died of a heart attack in New York.

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

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• Carl B Boyer's Foremost Modern Textbook: An International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA from 30 August to 6 September 1950

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