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

1. ^ Raymond Clare Archibald (January 1932). "Florian Cajori 1859-

1930". Isis 17 (2): 384 –407. doi:10.1086/346660..

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