Carl Benjamin Boyer
link author: Joseph Dauben (via WP:JWB)
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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Boyer was born in [[Hellertown, Pennsylvania]], on November 3, 1906, and graduated as [[valedictorian]] of his [[high school]] class. He received a bachelor's degree from [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]] in 1928 and started working as a tutor at [[Brooklyn College]] in the same year. From [[Columbia University]], he earned his master's degree in 1929 and his doctorate in history in 1939. He was a full professor of mathematics at Brooklyn College from 1952 until his death.{{Cite book |title=Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development |publisher=Birkhäuser |year=2002 |isbn=978-3-764-36167-9 |editor-last=Dauben |editor-first=Joseph W. |editor-last2=Scriba |editor-first2=Christoph J.}}{{Reference page|pages=380-1}} |
Boyer was born in [[Hellertown, Pennsylvania]], on November 3, 1906, and graduated as [[valedictorian]] of his [[high school]] class. He received a bachelor's degree from [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]] in 1928 and started working as a tutor at [[Brooklyn College]] in the same year. From [[Columbia University]], he earned his master's degree in 1929 and his doctorate in history in 1939. He was a full professor of mathematics at Brooklyn College from 1952 until his death.{{Cite book |title=Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development |publisher=Birkhäuser |year=2002 |isbn=978-3-764-36167-9 |editor-last=Dauben |editor-first=Joseph W. |editor-link=Joseph Dauben |editor-last2=Scriba |editor-first2=Christoph J.|editor2-link=Christoph Scriba}}{{Reference page|pages=380-1}} |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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