Author:Florian Cajori

Florian Cajori
(1859–1930)

Florian Cajori

Works

• 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

• "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

• "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

• "On the Chinese Origin of the Symbol for Zero," (external scan) in The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 10, p. 35 (February 1903).