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Florian Cajori

Florian CajoriBorn: 28-Feb-1859
Birthplace: St. Aignan, Switzerland
Died: 14-Aug-1930
Location of death: Berkeley, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A History of Mathematics

    University: PhD, Tulane University
    Professor: Tulane University (1885-88)
    Professor: Colorado College (1889-1918)
    Administrator: Dean, Department of Engineering, Colorado College (1903-18)
    Professor: Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley (1918-)

Author of books:
The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States (1890)
A History of Mathematics (1894)
A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches (1899)
An Introduction to the Theory of Equations (1904)
A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments (1909)
William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics (1916, biography)
A History of Mathematics (1919, 2nd ed.)
A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain from Newton to Woodhouse (1919)
A History of Mathematical Notations (1928-29, 2 vols.)
The Chequered Career of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1929, biography)



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