Carl Benjamin Boyer
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American mathematician and historian
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- PhD Mathematics Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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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- The history of the calculus and its conceptual development. : (The concepts of the calculus) (1939) (188)
- The rainbow from myth to mathematics (1959) (88)
- The Concepts of the Calculus (1940) (37)
- An Early Reference to Division by Zero (1943) (33)
- The concepts of the calculus : a critical and historical discussion of the derivative and the integral (1939) (28)
- The Birth of Mathematics in the Age of Plato (1964) (28)
- Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics. (1964) (25)
- The Science of Mechanics in the Middle Ages (1961) (20)
- Newton as an Originator of Polar Coördinates (1949) (18)
- Robert Grosseteste on the Rainbow (1954) (16)
- The History of the Calculus. (1969) (16)
- Fundamental Steps in the Development of Numeration (1944) (14)
- The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence. Together with Extracts from Newton's Principia and Opticks.H.G. Alexander (1957) (13)
- Archimedes in the Middle Ages. Volume I, The Arabo-Latin Tradition (1968) (12)
- The Foremost Textbook of Modern Times (1951) (12)
- Descartes and the Geometrization of Algebra (1959) (11)
- Zero: The Symbol, the Concept, the Number (1944) (10)
- Early Estimates of the Velocity of Light (1941) (9)
- Cardan and the Pascal Triangle (1950) (9)
- Early Principles in the Calibration of Thermometers (1942) (8)
- Aristotelian References to the Law of Reflection (1946) (7)
- Note on an Early Graph of Statistical Data (Huygens 1669) (1947) (7)
- Note on Epicycles & the Ellipse from Copernicus to Lahire (1947) (7)
- The Theory of the Rainbow: Medieval Triumph and Failure (1958) (7)
- Number Words and Number Symbols. A Cultural History of Numbers. Karl Menninger. Translated from the revised German edition (Göttingen, 1958) by Paul Broneer. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1969. xiv + 482 pp., illus. $15 (1970) (6)
- Ultraviolet photographs and the radar cross section of Venus in 1966 (1967) (6)
- Historical Stages in the Definition of Curves (1945) (5)
- Carnot and the Concept of Deviation (1954) (5)
- Fermat's Integration of X n (1945) (4)
- A VESTIGE OF BABYLONIAN INFLUENCE IN THERMOMETRY. (1942) (4)
- The Tertiary Rainbow: An Historical Account (1958) (4)
- History of the Measurement of Heat II. The Conservation of Energy (1943) (4)
- GAS-PRESSURE BONDING OF FLAT-PLATE FUEL ASSEMBLIES (1959) (4)
- The Invention of Analytic Geometry (1949) (4)
- Mathematical Inutility and the Advance of Science: Should science entice the mathematician from his ivory tower into Solomon's House? (1959) (3)
- Fractional Indices, Exponents, and Powers (1943) (3)
- Refraction and the Rainbow in Antiquity (1956) (3)
- Jekuthiel Ginsburg (1889-1957) (1958) (2)
- The Works of Archimedes. T. L. Heath (1953) (2)
- The Prince of Amateurs. (Book Reviews: The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)) (1973) (2)
- Eighty-First Critical Bibliography of The History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1956) (1956) (2)
- Hot Isostatic Processing. (1971) (2)
- Kepler's Explanation of the Rainbow (1950) (2)
- The History of Science Society (1954) (2)
- Mathematics in Western Culture. Morris Kline (1954) (2)
- Sections of the History of Science Society (1958) (2)
- THE CLADDING OF DELTA-PHASE ZIRCONIUM HYDRIDE (1957) (2)
- Clairaut le Cadet and a Theorem of Thabit ibn Qurra (1964) (1)
- Book Review:Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times Morris Kline (1974) (1)
- William Gilbert on the Rainbow (1952) (1)
- Clairaut and the Origin of the Distance Formula (1948) (1)
- The four-day rotation of Venus' atmosphere. (1973) (1)
- Descartes and the Radius of the Rainbow (1952) (1)
- Evolution of Mathematical Concepts. An Elementary Study. Raymiond L. Wilder. Wiley, New York, 1968. xx + 234 pp., illIs. $8 (1969) (1)
- Development and Operation of a Large Hot Isostatic Pressing System (1979) (1)
- High pressure codes and standards (1984) (1)
- Essay Review: The Making of a Mathematician: The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton (1967) (1)
- Book Review:The Study of the History of Mathematics, and, The Study of the History of Science George Sarton (1958) (1)
- Torch & crucible : the life and death of Antoine Lavoisier (1942) (1)
- III. Medieval Contributions (1939) (1)
- Book Review:Mathematics as a Culture Clue, and Other Essays Cassius Jackson Keyser (1948) (1)
- Mathematics in Your World. K. W. Menninger. Translated from the German by P. S. Morrell and J. E. Blamey. Viking Press, New York, 1962. viii + 291 pp. Illus. $5 (1963) (0)
- VI. The Period of Indecision (1939) (0)
- Differential equations: with applications and historical notes: By George F. Simmons. New York (McGraw-Hill), 1972, 482 pp (1974) (0)
- Hot Isostatic Gas Pressure Compaction of Electronic Ceramic Components (1964) (0)
- Functional Analysis in Historical Perspective. A. F. Monna. Halsted (Wiley), New York, 1973. viii, 168 pp. $16.50 (1974) (0)
- A history of mathematics / Carl B. Boyer (1968) (0)
- The Treasury of Mathematics. Henrietta O. Midonick (1965) (0)
- The World of Mathematics. James R. Newman (1957) (0)
- USE OF AGGLOMERATED UO$sub 2$ IN PRESSURE-BONDED STAINLESS STEEL-CLAD FUEL RODS (1963) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the Metropolitan New York Section (1947) (0)
- The planet Venus (1977) (0)
- On the Nature of Mathematics: Mathematics in Your World . K. W. Menninger. Translated from the German by P. S. Morrell and J. E. Blamey. Viking Press, New York, 1962. viii + 291 pp. Illus. $5. (1963) (0)
- Thomas Hawkins. Lebesgue's Theory of Integration: Its Origins and Development. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1970. Pp. xv, 227. $12.50 (1972) (0)
- GAS-PRESSURE BONDING OF STAINLESS STEEL-CLAD UO$sub 2$ FLAT-PLATE ELEMENTS (1962) (0)
- Book Review:The Mathematics of Great Amateurs Julian Lowell Coolidge (1950) (0)
- Book Review:A Concise History of Mathematics Dirk J. Struik (1949) (0)
- Book Review:History and Philosophy of Science: An Introduction L. W. H. Hull (1960) (0)
- The Great Mathematicians. Herbert Westren Turnbull. New York University Press, New York, 1961. xv + 141 pp. Illus. $3.50 (1962) (0)
- Mathematics The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus . By Margaret E. Baron. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 1969. Pp. viii + 304. £5. (1970) (0)
- The Great Art. Or the Rules of Algebra. Girolamo Cardano. Translated from the Latin edition (Nuremberg, 1545) and edited by T. Richard Witmer. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1968. xxvi + 270 pp., illus. $10 (1969) (0)
- The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton. Vol. 2, 1667-1670. D. T. Whiteside, Ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1968. xxiv + 520 pp. $35 (1968) (0)
- History of Mathematics. David Eugene Smith (1959) (0)
- Early Mathematics: Science Awakening . B. L. Van der Waerden. Translated by Arnold Dresden. Oxford University Press, New York, 1961. 306 pp. Illus. $7.50. (1961) (0)
- James Hume and Exponents (1950) (0)
- Mathematics in the Making. Lancelot Hogben. Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1961. 320 pp. Illus. $9.95 (1962) (0)
- PROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR MAKING SM-1 INSTRUMENTED FUEL PLATES BY GAS- PRESSURE BONDING (1961) (0)
- A renewed appeal for the preservation of archival materials by the CBMS advisory committee on history (1975) (0)
- Limit and Convergence. (Book Reviews: The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann) (1971) (0)
- Science Awakening. B. L. Van der Waerden. Translated by Arnold Dresden. Oxford University Press, New York, 1961. 306 pp. Illus. $7.50 (1961) (0)
- Limit and Convergence: The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann . I. Grattan-Guinness. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1970. xvi, 186 pp., illus. $10. (1971) (0)
- The Anthropology of Mathematics: Evolution of Mathematical Concepts . An Elementary Study. Raymiond L. Wilder. Wiley, New York, 1968. xx + 234 pp., illus. $8. (1969) (0)
- Book Review:The Scientific Methodology of Theodoric of Freiberg William A. Wallace (1960) (0)
- Charles Morton's "Compendium physicae" (1941) (0)
- Evaluation of Failed Hot Gas Isostatic Pressed Fuel Rods (1963) (0)
- The March of Mind: A Short History of Science. By F. SHERWOOD TAYLOR. (New York: Macmillan Company. 1939. Pp. xiv, 320. $3.00.) (1940) (0)
- Newton on Calculus, Algebra, and Geometry. (Book Reviews: The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton. Vol. 2, 1667-1670) (1968) (0)
- A History of Mathematics . From antiquity to the beginning of the nineteenth century. J. F. Scott. Taylor & Francis, London, 1958. xiii + 266 pp. Illus. + plates. 63s. (1958) (0)
- Art, Lore, and Visual Aids: Mathematics in the Making . Lancelot Hogben. Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1961. 320 pp. Illus. $9.95. (1962) (0)
- The March of Mind: A Short History of Science (1940) (0)
- Discussion on “High pressure codes and standards” (1984) (0)
- Book Review:The Principal Works of Simon Stevin. Volume II (A & B), Mathematics D. J. Struik (1959) (0)
- Newton on Calculus, Algebra, and Geometry: The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton . Vol. 2, 1667-1670. D. T. Whiteside, Ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1968. xxiv + 520 pp. $35. (1968) (0)
- Thomas Bradwardine His Tractatus de Proportionibus . Its significance for the development of mathematical physics. H. Lamar Crosby, Jr., Ed. and Trans. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1955. xi+ 203 pp. $3.50. (1955) (0)
- Numerals and Languages: Number Words and Number Symbols . A Cultural History of Numbers. Karl Menninger. Translated from the revised German edition (Göttingen, 1958) by Paul Broneer. M. I. T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1969. xiv + 482 pp., illus. $15. (1970) (0)
- The Prince of Amateurs: The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) . Michael Sean Mahoney. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1973. xx, 420 pp., illus. $20. (1973) (0)
- FABRICATION OF UO$sub 2$ FUEL RODS BY VIBRATIONAL COMPACTION AND PRESSURE BONDING (1963) (0)
- Brief, Clear, Elementary: The Great Mathematicians . Herbert Westren Turnbull. New York University Press, New York, 1961. xv + 141 pp. Illus. $3.50. (1962) (0)
- GAS-PRESSURE BONDING OF FUEL ASSEMBLIES (1959) (0)
- II. Conceptions in Antiquity (1939) (0)
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