Carl Benjamin Boyer

Carl Benjamin Boyer ( born November 3, 1906 in Hellertown, Pennsylvania, † April 26, 1976 in New York City ) was an American historian of mathematics.

Life and work

Boyer studied mathematics at Columbia University, where in 1929 he took his master's degree while he worked as a tutor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He entered the field after graduating continued ( and also taught as a lecturer at Rutgers University), Assistant Professor in 1941, Associate Professor in 1948 and Professor in 1953 at Brooklyn College. 1954/5 he was Guggenheim Fellow.

Boyer dealt with the history of Calculus and analytic geometry. For his dissertation at Columbia University in 1939, published the book "Concepts of the Calculus " (Columbia University Press), later reissued as "The history of calculus and its historical development" was born.

In 1957 he became a Fellow of the International Academy of the History of Science. 1958/9 he was vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was co-editor of Archive for History of Exact Sciences 1960-1976, Historia Mathematica at ( 1973-1976 ) and the Dictionary of Scientific Biography ( 1960 to 1976, responsible for the area of ​​mathematicians biographies ).

Writings

  • The Concepts of the Calculus. A critical and historical discussion of the derivative and the integral Columbia University Press, New York NY 1939 ( New York, NY, Columbia University, Dissertation ) (also: Hafner Publishing, New York, NY in 1949, and when: The History of the Calculus and its. Conceptual Development Dover Publications, New York, NY in 1959; ibid 2010, ISBN 978-0-486-60509-8 ).
  • History of analytic geometry ( = Scripta mathematica. Scripta mathematica The Studies. Vol 6/7, ZDB - ID 766190-3 ). Yeshiva University, New York NY 1956 ( Reprint: Dover Publications, Mineola NY 2004, ISBN 0-486-43832-5 ).
  • The Rainbow. From myth to mathematics. Yoseloff, New York NY, et al 1959; Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1992, ISBN 0-691-02405-7.
  • A History of Mathematics. Wiley, New York, NY, among others, 1968 ( 2nd, revised edition of Uta C. Untermerzbach. Ibid, 1991, ISBN 0-471-54397-7 ).
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