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Carl Benjamin Boyer

1906 - 1976

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Benjamin Boyer is the 441st most popular historian (down from 409th in 2019), the 7,790th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,598th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Carl Benjamin Boyer ranks 441 out of 561. Before him are Abu Shama, Edward Duyker, Cyril Mango, G. M. Trevelyan, Heinrich Ewald, and Arthur Smith Woodward. After him are Ekvtime Takaishvili, Mikheil Tsereteli, Nikolaus Pevsner, Donald Nicol, Avi Shlaim, and Drew Gilpin Faust.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Carl Benjamin Boyer ranks 319. Before him are Ödön Zombori, Alexander Kazantsev, Károly Kárpáti, Alice Kober, Harry Hopman, and Nils Skoglund. After him are Iosif Czako, Carl-Erik Holmberg, Thelma Todd, Abdylas Maldybaev, Irving Jaffee, and Jean Dréville. Among people deceased in 1976, Carl Benjamin Boyer ranks 196. Before him are Ritwik Ghatak, Alexander Brailowsky, Hugo Wieslander, Mortimer Wheeler, Stith Thompson, and Jens Bjørneboe. After him are Narve Bonna, Markus Reiner, Tarab Abdul Hadi, Anna Kéthly, Yashpal, and L. S. Lowry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carl Benjamin Boyer ranks 7,792 out of 20,380. Before him are Tess Harper (1950), John Jeffries (1745), Amanda Bearse (1958), Molly Ringwald (1968), Rosalind Chao (1957), and Joseph Williams (1960). After him are Alexa PenaVega (1988), Katie Ledecky (1997), Ron Clements (1953), Bernadette Peters (1948), Edward Platt (1916), and Brad Fiedel (1951).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Carl Benjamin Boyer ranks 30. Before him are Stanley G. Payne (1934), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), and Charles A. Beard (1874). After him are Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), John King Fairbank (1907), Charles Homer Haskins (1870), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Lothrop Stoddard (1883), and Stephen F. Cohen (1938).

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