Mathematician:Florian Cajori

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

Books and Papers

 * 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
 * 1915: Elementary algebra: First year course
 * 1916: William Oughtred, a Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
 * 1919: A History of Mathematics (2nd Edition)
 * 1928: Early Mathematical Sciences in North and South America
 * 1928-29: A History of Mathematical Notations (2 volumes)
 * 1934: Sir Isaac Newton's "Mathematical principles" of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (posthumous, edited)