- Florian Cajori
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name = Florian Cajori
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caption = Florian Cajori atColorado College
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birth_date = birth date|1859|2|28|df=y
birth_place =Graubünden ,Switzerland
death_date = death date and age|1930|8|15|1859|2|28|df=y
death_place = Berkeley,California
occupation = MathematicianFlorian Cajori (
February 28 1859 in St Aignan (near Thusis),Graubünden ,Switzerland —August 15 ,1930 ,Berkeley, California ) was one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day. He emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. He received a Ph.D. atTulane University , where he taught for a few years before being driven north by his health. He taught atColorado College , where he founded the Colorado College Scientific Society. Even today his "History of Mathematical Notations" (1928-29) has been described as "unsurpassed." [ [http://www.cc.colorado.edu/Dept/MA/History/Faculty/Cajori.html Colorado College] page on Florian Cajori.] In 1918, he was appointed to a specially created chair in history of mathematics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley . He remained in Berkeley, California until his death in 1930.His last work was revising Motte's Translation of Newton's Principia, vol.1 The Motion of Bodies, but died before it was finished. The work was finished by R.T.Crawford of Berkeley, California.
Notes and references
*Cajori, Florian. "The History of Notations of the Calculus." "Annals of Mathematics", 2nd Ser., Vol. 25, No. 1 (Sep., 1923), pp. 1-46
*cite book |last= Cajori |first=Florian |title= A History of Mathematical Notations |publisher=Dover Publications |year= 1993 |origyear= 1928-1929 |isbn= 0486677664External links
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