Carl B. Boyer
Born 3 November 1906 · Died 26 April 1976
Carl Benjamin Boyer was an American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics. --Wikipedia
Quotes
“But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to define or explain it.”
p. 8 “A Hebrew belief asserted that if Yahweh lays aside his bow and hangs it in the clouds, this is a sign that his anger has subsided.”
The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics, p. 27 “He seems to have had no qualms about comparing infinite magnitudes!”
The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics, p. 204
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Books by Carl B. Boyer in order
Books by Carl B. Boyer in the order they were published, from The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (1939) to A History of Mathematics (1968).
