Florian Cajori

Mathematical historian, born in St Aignan, Switzerland. He emigrated to the USA as a student (1875), and became best known as a mathematical historian. He was appointed history of mathematics professor at the University of California (1918–30), and as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences wrote a number of texts on the history of mathematics and physics.

Florian Cajori was born February 28, 1859 in St Aignan (near Thusis), Graubünden, Switzerland. He taught at Colorado College, where he founded the Colorado College Scientific Society. He became one of the most celebrated historians of mathematics in his day (he was the author of "A History of Mathematical Notations" (ISBN 0-486-67766-4)). In 1918, he was appointed to a specially created chair in history of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.