Florian Cajori

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Florian Cajori
Florian Cajori at Colorado College
Born	28 February 1859 Graubünden, Switzerland
Died	15 August 1930 Berkeley, California
Occupation	Mathematician

Florian Cajori was born February 28, 1859 in St Aignan (near Thusis), Graubünden, Switzerland. He emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. He received a Ph.D. at Tulane University, where he taught for a few years before being driven north by his health. He taught at Colorado College, where he founded the Colorado College Scientific Society. He became one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day. Even today his History of Mathematical Notations (1928-29) has been described as "unsurpassed."^[1] In 1918, he was appointed to a specially created chair in history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He remained in Berkeley, California until his death, August 15, 1930.

[edit] 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
Cajori, Florian [1928-1929] (1993). A History of Mathematical Notations. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486677664.