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Florian Cajori
Florian Cajori
Florian Cajori at Colorado College
Born 28 February 1859
Graubünden, Switzerland
Died 15 August 1930 (aged 71)
Berkeley, United States
Occupation Mathematician
Biography [edit]
Florian Cajori emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. He received both his bachelor' and master's
degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He taught for a few years at Tulane University, before being
appointed as professor of applied mathematics there in 1887. He was then driven north by tuberculosis. He
founded the Colorado College Scientific Society and taught at Colorado College where he held, at different
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A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse Open
Court
1893
A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories, The
Macmillan Company, 1917
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World tr. Andrew
Motte, rev. Florian Cajori. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934.[9]
The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890
William Oughtred: a Great Seventeenth-century Teacher of Mathematics The Open Court Publishing
Company, 1916
A History of Mathematical Notations The Open Court Company, 1928
Notes and references [edit]
Cajori, Florian. "The History of Notations of the Calculus." Annals of Mathematics, 2nd Ser., Vol. 25, No. 1
(Sep., 1923), pp. 1 –46
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2. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica
3. ^ writer, staff. "Florian Cajori, 1917 MAA President". MAA Mathematical
Association of America. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
4. ^ O'Connor and Robertson, J. J. and E. F. "Florian Cajori". The MacTutor
History of Mathematics archive, University of S. Andrews, Scotland.
Retrieved 5 July 2012.
5. ^ Colorado College page on Florian Cajori.
6. ^ O'Connor and Robertson, J. J. and E. F. "Florian Cajori". The MacTutor
History of Mathematics archive, University of S. Andrews, Scotland.
Retrieved 5 July 2012.
7. ^ writer, staff. "Florian Cajori, 1917 MAA President". MAA Mathematical
Association of America. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
8. ^ Smith, David Eugene (1921). "Review: Florian Cajori, A History of the
Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to
Woodhouse". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (9-10): 468 –470.
9. ^ Smith, David Eugene (1934). "Cajori's Edition of Newton's P