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Florian Cajori was born on February 28, 1859 in Switzerland, and was the son of Georg Cajori and Catherine Camenisch.
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Florian Cajori was born on February 28, 1859 in Switzerland, and was the son of Georg Cajori and Catherine Camenisch.
Florian attended schools first in Zillis and later in Chur. In 1875, Florian Cajori emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen and attended the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin. After graduating in 1878, he taught in a country school, and then later began studying Mathematics at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Florian taught at Tulane University in New Orleans (1885–88) and at Colorado College (1889–1918), where he also served as dean of the department of engineering (1903–18). In 1918 he became a professor of the history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
His major works include A History of Mathematics (2nd ed. 1919), A History of Mathematical Notations, 2 vol. (1928–29), A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches (1899), William Oughtred, a Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics (1916), and The Chequered Career of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1929). His revised translation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia was published posthumously in 1934.
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Florian married to Elizabeth G Edwards in 1890 and they had one son.