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Florian Cajori
Florian Cajori at Colorado College Born 28 February 1859 Graubnden, Switzerland Died 15 August 1930 (aged 71) Berkeley, United States Occupation Mathematician
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Florian Cajori emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen. He received both his bachelor' and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He taught for a few years at Tulane University, before being appointed as professor of applied mathematics there in 1887. He was then driven north by tuberculosis. He founded the Colorado College Scientific Society and taught at Colorado College where he held, at different
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A History of the Conceptions of Limits and Fluxions in Great Britain, from Newton to Woodhouse Open Court
1893 A History of Physics in its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of Physical Laboratories, The
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