Carl Benjamin Boyer
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Carl Benjamin Boyer
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Carl Benjamin Boyer was 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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American mathematician and historian (1906–1976)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benjamin_Boyer
date created:
2003-05-07T18:21:59Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:06:58Z
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