Mathematician:William Frend

Mathematician

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

Wrote a few works on mathematics in which, like Francis Maseres, he rejected the use of negative quantities.

English

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: The Principles of Algebra (with a very long appendix by Francis Maseres)
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".)

1939: E.G. Phillips: A Course of Analysis (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {I}$: Number: $1.1$ Introduction (footnote $*$)