Carl Benjamin Boyer, was an American historian of sciences, and especially mathematics, novelist David Foster Wallace called him the "Gibbon of math history", who was the English historian, writer and Member of Parliament?
Carl Benjamin Boyer 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". It has been written that he was one of few historians of mathematics of his time to "keep open links with contemporary history of science."
Michael Geddes Michael Geddes LL.D. (1650?–1713) was a Scottish clergyman of the Church of England and historian.