Mathematician:Florian Cajori
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Mathematician
Swiss-born American mathematician who specialized in (and in fact pioneered) the field of mathematics history.
Nationality
Swiss-American
History
- Born: 28 Feb 1859, St Aignan (near Thusis), Graubünden, Switzerland
- Died: 14 Aug 1930, Berkeley, California, USA
Publications
- 1890: The teaching and history of mathematics in the United States
- 1894: A History of Mathematics
- 1896: A History of Elementary Mathematics with Hints on Methods of Teaching
- 1904: An introduction to the modern theory of equations
- 1909: A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments
- 1913: History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 1: pp. 5 – 14) www.jstor.org/stable/2973509
- 1913: History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 2: pp. 35 – 47) www.jstor.org/stable/2974078
- 1913: History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 3: pp. 75 – 84) www.jstor.org/stable/2973441
- 1913: History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 4: pp. 107 – 117) www.jstor.org/stable/2972960
- 1913: History of the Exponenetial and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 5: pp. 148 – 151) www.jstor.org/stable/2972412 (the typo is authentic)
- 1913: History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 6: pp. 173 – 182) www.jstor.org/stable/2973069
- 1913: History of the Exponential and Logarithmic Concepts (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 20, no. 7: pp. 205 – 210) www.jstor.org/stable/2974104
- 1915: Elementary algebra: First year course
- 1916: William Oughtred, a Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
- 1918: Origin of the Name "Mathematical Induction" (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 25: pp. 197 – 201) www.jstor.org/stable/2972638
- 1919: A History of Mathematics (2nd Edition)
- 1928: Early Mathematical Sciences in North and South America
- 1928: A History of Mathematical Notations, Volume 1
- 1929: A History of Mathematical Notations, Volume 2
- 1934: Sir Isaac Newton's "Mathematical principles" of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (posthumous, edited)