| 词条 | Carl Benjamin Boyer |
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|name = Carl Benjamin Boyer |image = File:Carl Benjamin Boyer.png |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|11|3}} |birth_place = Hellertown, Pennsylvania, U.S.[1] |death_date = {{death date and age|1976|4|26|1906|11|3}} |death_place = New York, New York, U.S. |other_names = |known_for = |occupation = Historian of mathematics |nationality = United States }}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".[2] 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."[3] Life and careerBoyer was valedictorian of his high school class. He received a B.A. from Columbia College in 1928 and an M.A. in 1929. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1939.[1] He was a full professor of Mathematics at the City University of New York's Brooklyn College from 1952 until his death, although he had begun tutoring and teaching at Brooklyn College in 1928.[1] Along with Carolyn Eisele of CUNY's Hunter College; C. Doris Hellman of the Pratt Institute, and later CUNY's Queens College; and Lynn Thorndike of Columbia University, Boyer was instrumental in the 1953 founding of the Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society.[4] In 1954, Boyer was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship to further his work in the history of science. In particular, the grant made reference to "the history of the theory of the rainbow".[5] Boyer wrote the books The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (1959),[6] originally published as The Concepts of the Calculus (1939),[7] History of Analytic Geometry (1956),[8] The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959),[9] and A History of Mathematics (1968).[10] He served as book-review editor of Scripta Mathematica.[11] Boyer died of a heart attack in New York City in 1976. In 1978, Boyer's widow, the former Marjorie Duncan Nice, a professor of history,[12] established the Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize, to be awarded annually to a Columbia University undergraduate for the best essay on a scientific or mathematical topic.[13] ReferencesNotes1. ^1 2 Dauben, Joseph Warren and Scriba, Christoph J. (2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&printsec=frontcover Writing the history of mathematics: its historical development], Birkhäuser. Cf. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oXjMYIonXTYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=boyer&f=false pp.380-381] for the biography of Boyer. Further reading2. ^{{cite web|author=Wallace, David Foster|authorlink=David Foster Wallace|title=An excerpt from Everything and More|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/wallace.htm|accessdate=2007-08-28}} 3. ^Gray, Jeremy (2016) "Histories of Modern Mathematics in English in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s" in Remmert, Volker R.; Schneider, Martina; and Kragh Sørensen, Henrik (eds.) Historiography of Mathematics in the 19th and 20th Centuries Birkhäuser. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iKCwDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=Historiography%20of%20Mathematics%20in%20the%2019th%20and%2020th&pg=PA161#v=onepage&q=open%20links&f=false p.161]. {{ISBN|9783319396491}} 4. ^Gleason, Mary Louise (1999) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/238014 "The Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society"], Isis, Vol. 90, Supplement: Catching up with the Vision: Essays on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the History of Science Society, pp. S200-S218. University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science Society 5. ^Staff (May 3, 1954) [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/05/03/92826911.pdf "Guggenheim Fund Grants $1,000,000"] The New York Times 6. ^WorldCat.org OCLC=916224186 7. ^[https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4984&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=8312338 Library of Congress Online Catalog, BIBLD=8312338] 8. ^[https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4886&recCount=25&recPointer=1&bibId=7462342 Library of Congress Online Catalog, BIBLD=7462342] 9. ^[https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4984&recCount=25&recPointer=6&bibId=3111320 Library of Congress Online Catalog, BIBLD=3111320] 10. ^[https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?searchId=4984&recCount=25&recPointer=4&bibId=3121041 Library of Congress Online Catalog, BIBLD=3121041] 11. ^{{cite book|title=Scripta Mathematica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zeQSAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Carl+B.+Boyer%22&dq=%22Carl+B.+Boyer%22&pgis=1|accessdate=2007-10-21}} 12. ^Unknown (March 21, 2010) "Marjorie Boyer" (paid obituary), The New York Times 13. ^{{cite web|title=Columbia College Bulletin:Prizes and Fellowships|url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/bulletin/prizes.php|accessdate=2009-02-20}}
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