Carl Benjamin Boyer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Benjamin Boyer

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 03-Nov-1906

Place of Birth: Hellertown, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 26-Apr-1976

Profession: mathematician, historian, university teacher, historian of mathematics

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Carl Benjamin Boyer (November 3, 1906 – April 26, 1976) 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."