Carl Benjamin Boyer

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Carl Benjamin Boyer (November 3, 1906 – April 26, 1976) was a historian of mathematics. He wrote the books History of Analytic Geometry, History of the Calculus, A History of Mathematics, and The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics.

He married the former Marjorie Duncan Nice.

He was a 1954 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.[1]

He died of a heart attack in New York.

The Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize is awarded to the Columbia University undergraduate writing the best essay on any scientific or mathematical topic.