Mathematician:William Frend

Mathematician
English clergyman (later Unitarian), social reformer and writer.

Wrote a few works on mathematics in which, like, he rejected the use of negative quantities. Father-in-law of

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 22 November 1757 in Canterbury, England
 * Died: 21 February 1841 at his house in Tavistock Square, London

Publications

 * 1788: An Address to the Inhabitants of Cambridge and its Neighbourhood ... to turn from the false Worship of Three Persons to the Worship of the One True God
 * 1793: Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans (1793)
 * 1795: Scarcity of Bread: a plan for reducing its high price
 * 1796: (with a very long appendix by )
 * 1798: A Letter to the Vice-chancellor of Cambridge, by Wm. Frend, candidate for the Lucasian Professorship
 * 1799: Principles of Taxation
 * 1800: Animadversions on Bishop Pretyman's Elements of Christian Theology
 * 1801: The Effect of Paper Money on the Price of Provisions
 * 1803: Editor of The Gentleman's Monthly Miscellany
 * 1804 -- 1822: Evening Amusements, or the Beauty of the Heavens Displayed
 * 1804: Patriotism: an Essay dedicated to the Volunteers
 * 1805: Tangible Arithmetic, or the Art of Numbering made Easy by means of an Arithmetical Toy
 * 1816: A Letter on the Slave Trade
 * 1817: The National Debt in its True Colours
 * 1819: Memoirs of a Goldfinch
 * 1819: Is it Impossible to Free the Atmosphere of London in a very considerable degree from Smoke?
 * 1832: A Plan of Universal Education (a fragment of a volume, Letters on a hitherto Undescribed Country, "written some years before but never published".)