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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Carl Benjamin Boyer</b> (* <a href="3._November" title="3. November">3. November</a> <a href="1906" title="1906">1906</a> in Hellertown, <a href="Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>; † <a href="26._April" title="26. April">26. April</a> <a href="1976" title="1976">1976</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>) war ein US-amerikanischer <a href="Mathematikgeschichte" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematikgeschichte">Mathematikhistoriker</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Boyer studierte Mathematik an der <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, wo er 1928 seinen <a href="Bachelor_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor</a> und 1929 seinen <a href="Master_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of Arts">Master</a> machte, während er gleichzeitig als Tutor am <a href="Brooklyn_College" title="Brooklyn College">Brooklyn College</a> der <a href="City_University_of_New_York" title="City University of New York">City University of New York</a> arbeitete. Das setzte er nach seinem Abschluss fort (und unterrichtete ebenfalls als Lecturer an der Rutgers University), wurde 1941 Assistant Professor, 1948 Associate Professor und 1953 Professor am Brooklyn College. 1954/5 war er Guggenheim Fellow.
</p><p>Boyer beschäftigte sich mit der Geschichte der Analysis und der analytischen Geometrie. Aus seiner Dissertation an der Columbia University entstand das 1939 erschienene Buch „Concepts of the Calculus“ (Columbia University Press), später wieder aufgelegt als „The history of calculus and its historical development“.
</p><p>1957 wurde er Fellow der <i>International Academy of the History of Science</i>. 1958/9 war er Vizepräsident der <a href="American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>. Er war Mitherausgeber des <i>Archive for History of Exact Sciences</i> von 1960 bis 1976, bei Historia Mathematica (1973–1976) und des <a href="Dictionary_of_Scientific_Biography" title="Dictionary of Scientific Biography">Dictionary of Scientific Biography</a> (von 1960 bis 1976, verantwortlich für den Bereich der Mathematikerbiographien).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften">Schriften</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>The Concepts of the Calculus. A critical and historical Discussion of the Derivative and the Integral</i> Columbia University Press, New York NY 1939 (New York NY, Columbia University, Dissertation), (auch: Hafner Publishing, New York NY 1949; als: <i>The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development.</i> Dover Publications, New York NY 1959; ebenda 2010, ISBN 978-0-486-60509-8).</li>
<li><i>History of analytic geometry</i> (= <i>Scripta mathematica. The Scripta mathematica Studies.</i> Bd. 6/7, <a href="Zeitschriftendatenbank" title="Zeitschriftendatenbank">ZDB</a>-ID <span class="-print"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://zdb-katalog.de/list.xhtml?t=766190-3&key=zdb">766190-3</a></span>). Yeshiva University, New York NY 1956 (Nachdruck: Dover Publications, Mineola NY 2004, ISBN 0-486-43832-5).</li>
<li><i>The Rainbow. From myth to mathematics.</i> Yoseloff, New York NY, u. a. 1959; Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1992, ISBN 0-691-02405-7.</li>
<li><i>A History of mathematics.</i> Wiley, New York NY u. a. 1968 (2nd, revised Edition von <a href="Uta_C._Merzbach" class="mw-redirect" title="Uta C. Merzbach">Uta C. Merzbach</a>. ebenda 1991, ISBN 0-471-54397-7).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Joseph_W._Dauben" title="Joseph W. Dauben">Joseph W. Dauben</a>, <a href="Christoph_J._Scriba" class="mw-redirect" title="Christoph J. Scriba">Christoph J. Scriba</a> (Hrsg.): <i>Writing the history of mathematics</i> (= <i>Science networks, historical Studies.</i> Bd. 27). Birkhäuser, Basel u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0, S. 380.</li>
<li><a href="Morris_Kline" title="Morris Kline">Morris Kline</a>: <i>Carl B. Boyer – in memoriam.</i> In: <i>Historia Mathematica.</i> Bd. 3, Nr. 4, 1976, S. 387–394, <a href="Digital_Object_Identifier" title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</a>:<span class="uri-handle" style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860%2876%2990063-X">10.1016/0315-0860(76)90063-X</a></span>; <i>Chronology of Carl B. Boyer.</i> S. 395–396, <a href="Digital_Object_Identifier" title="Digital Object Identifier">doi</a>:<span class="uri-handle" style="white-space:nowrap"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860%2876%2990064-1">10.1016/0315-0860(76)90064-1</a></span>.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li>John J. O’Connor, <a href="Edmund_Robertson" title="Edmund Robertson">Edmund F. Robertson</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boyer/"><i>Carl Benjamin Boyer.</i></a> In: <span lang="en"><i><a href="MacTutor_History_of_Mathematics_archive" title="MacTutor History of Mathematics archive">MacTutor History of Mathematics archive</a></i></span> (englisch).</li></ul>
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