BUREAU OF EDUCATION CIRCULAR OF INFORMATION NO. 3, 1890 THE TEACHING AND HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNITED STATES BY FLORIAN CAJORI, M. S. (University of Wisconsin) FORMERLY Professor of Applied MathemaTICS IN THE TULANE UNIVERSITY OF NOTE TO THE READER FRAGILE THE PAPER IN THIS VOLUME IS BRITTLE 'ON ING OFFICE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., February 19, 1889. SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript of a History of Mathematical Teaching in the United States, by Prof. Florian Cajori, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, student at Johns Hopkins University, and recently professor of applied mathematics in Tulane University of Louisiana-a work prepared with your approval, under the direction of this Office. The table of contents indicates the wide scope of the work and the variety of subjects treated, but scarcely more than suggests the painstaking labor involved in its preparation. Professor Cajori's researches have extended through several years, and have been pursued in the libraries of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington. He has personally conducted a large correspondence with alumni, and past and present instructors in the higher educational institutions, and has been aided by 1,000 circulars of inquiry sent from this Office relating to the present condition of mathematical teaching in schools of all grades. I am convinced that this monograph will prove of great value to all teachers and students of mathematics, and will be not without interest to any person engaged in the work of education. I therefore respectfully recommend its publication. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. H. R. DAWSON, |