• Carl Benjamin Boyer (November 3, 1906 – April 26, 1976) was an American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics. Novelist David Foster Wallace...
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    Accordingly, concepts (as senses) have an ontological status. According to Carl Benjamin Boyer, in the introduction to his The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual...
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  • composer Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906–1976), American historian of mathematics Charles Boyer (1899–1978), French-American actor Charles-Georges Boyer (1743–1806...
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    He also provided a wrong explanation of the rainbow phenomenon. Carl Benjamin Boyer described Avicenna's ("Ibn Sīnā") theory on the rainbow as follows:...
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    Ferdinand Rosenberger, Geschichte der Physik (1882) Part. II, p.114 Carl Benjamin Boyer, The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959) Florian Cajori, "Who...
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    as the whole earth, all filled with fire, like that of the Sun". Carl Benjamin Boyer (1968), A History of Mathematics. Wiley. ISBN 0471543977. p. 54....
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    and Their Properties, J. W. Edwards (1952), "Evolutes". p. 206. Carl Benjamin Boyer (1949). The history of the calculus and its conceptual development...
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    elementary school, middle school, and Saucon Valley High School. Carl Benjamin Boyer, historian Glenn Hetrick, special makeup effects artist and designer...
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    numbers such as 2 and 61 could not be exactly determined. Historian Carl Benjamin Boyer, however, writes that "such claims are not well substantiated and...
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    Ancient Civilizations. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 26. Carl Benjamin Boyer; Uta C. Merzbach (2011). "China and India". A history of mathematics...
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