Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Carl B. Boyer

Born: November 3, 1906
Died: April 26, 1976 (aged 69)
Bio: Carl Benjamin Boyer was a historian of sciences, and especially mathematics. David Foster Wallace called him the "Gibbon of math history".
Known for:
- A History of Mathematics (1968)
- History of Analytic Geometry (1956)
- Concepts of the calculus (1949)
- Historia de La Matematica