Question: 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?
Sentence (from "Edward Gibbon"): His most important work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.
Relevant evidence: No