# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-benjamin-boyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:29:42.984Z

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name: "Carl Benjamin Boyer"
slug: "carl-benjamin-boyer"
description: "Carl Benjamin Boyer was an American historian of mathematics, dubbed the \"Gibbon of math history\" by novelist David Foster Wallace. He was one of few historians of mathematics of his time to \"keep open links with contemporary history of science.\""
tagline: "American mathematician and historian (1906–1976)"
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birthDate: "1906-11-03"
deathDate: "1976-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump