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?

Context articles: Everything and More (book)
Oblivion: Stories
David Wallace (The Office)
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
Carl Benjamin Boyer
Girl with Curious Hair
The Pale King
Inverse Cost and Quality Law
Edward Gibbon
Consider the Lobster

Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity is a book by American novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace that examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory.
 The book is part of the W. W. Norton "Great Discoveries" series.
Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short fiction by American author David Foster Wallace.
 "Oblivion" is Wallace's third and last short story collection and was listed as a 2004 "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year.
 Throughout the stories, Wallace explores the nature of reality, dreams, trauma, and the "dynamics of consciousness."
 The story "Good Old Neon" was included in "The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002".
David Wallace is a recurring fictional character in the American comedy series "The Office", portrayed by Andy Buckley.
 Wallace is introduced in the second season as the new chief financial officer of Dunder Mifflin.
 Wallace is named after the late David Foster Wallace, a favorite author of John Krasinski.
 His character is established as a wealthy executive at the corporate headquarters in New York with an opulent home and wife, Rachel, and son.
 Despite his differing lifestyle from the members of the Scranton branch, David tolerates and understands the eccentricities and flaws of Regional Manager Michael Scott, and appreciates employees Jim Halpert and Toby Flenderson.
 He is let go in the sixth season following the absorption of Dunder Mifflin by Sabre.
 He later sells his patent for "Suck it" to the US military and later acquires Dunder Mifflin for an undisclosed sum of money and becomes CEO in the eighth season finale, "Free Family Portrait Studio".
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace is a 2010 book by David Lipsky, about a five-day road trip with the author David Foster Wallace.
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."
Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989.
 Though the stories are not related, several reflect Wallace's concern with contemporary trends in fiction, including metafiction and the irony of postmodernism; and the cynical, amoral realism of "Brat Pack" writers such as Bret Easton Ellis.
 Others address society's fascination with celebrity, some with characters based on real people, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson.
 A novella, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", closes the book, as an extended response to John Barth's metafictional short story "Lost in the Funhouse".
The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011.
 It was planned as Wallace's third novel, and the first since "Infinite Jest" in 1996, but it was not completed at the time of his death.
 Before his suicide in 2008, Wallace organized the manuscript and associated computer files in a place where they would be found by his widow, Karen Green, and his agent, Bonnie Nadell.
 That material was compiled by his friend and editor Michael Pietsch into the form that was eventually published.
 Wallace had been working on the novel for over a decade.
 Even incomplete, "The Pale King" is a long work, with 50 chapters of varying length totaling over 500 pages.
The Inverse Cost and Quality Law attempts to formalize any Hollywood cinema production characterized by a large budget and, by negative correlation, poorly perceived critical attributes.
 The American writer, David Foster Wallace, coined the term and established subject attributes for the law in a 1998 article titled, "F/X Porn" by which Wallace primarily critiques the weaknesses of "" (1991), a blockbuster film directed by James Cameron.
Edward Gibbon FRS ( ; 8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament.
 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.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (2005) is a collection of essays by novelist David Foster Wallace.
 It is also the title of one of the essays, which was published in "Gourmet" magazine in 2004.