Author:Florian Cajori
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| historian of mathematics |
Works[edit]
- A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse (external scan)
- A History of Elementary Mathematics (external scan)
- On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule during the Seventeenth Century (external scan)
- A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments (external scan)
- A History of Mathematics (transcription project) (1893)
- A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories (external scan)
- Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (external scan)
- The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United States (external scan)
- William Oughtred: a Great Seventeenth-century Teacher of Mathematics (external scan)
- A History of Mathematical Notations
- Vol I (transcription project)
Translations[edit]
- "Arithmetic in Nine Sections" (abridged), one of the first English translations of The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, found in A History of Mathematics, Second Edition (1919), pp. 71–72. Possibly copied, in whole or in part, from Yoshio Mikami's work.
Articles in Popular Science Monthly[edit]
- "The History of the Conservation of Energy: The Age of the Earth and Sun" in Popular Science Monthly, 73 (August 1908)
- "A Review of Three Famous Attacks Upon the Study of Mathematics as a Training of the Mind" in Popular Science Monthly, 80 (April 1912)
- "Notes on Gauss and his American Descendants" in Popular Science Monthly, 81 (August 1912)
- "The Evolution of the Dollar Mark" in Popular Science Monthly, 81 (December 1912)
Articles in other periodicals[edit]
- "On the Chinese Origin of the Symbol for Zero," (external scan) in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 10, p. 35 (February 1903).
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1926.
The author died in 1930, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.