Francis Maseres
Former Attorney general of the Province of Quebec
Francis Maseres was an English lawyer. He is known as attorney general of the Province of Quebec, judge, mathematician, historian, member of the Royal Society, and cursitor baron of the exchequer. Wikipedia
Born: December 15, 1731, London, United Kingdom
Died: May 19, 1824 (age 92 years), Reigate, United Kingdom
Edited works: Select Tracts Relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the Reign of King Charles the First, Scriptores Logarithmici: Or, a Collection of Several Curious Tracts on the Nature and Construction of Logarithms, Mentioned in Dr. Hutton's Historical Introduction to His New Edition of Sherwin's Mathematical Tables: ..., The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations: Being an Essential and Fundamental Part of the Doctrine of Chances; as it is Delivered by Mr. James Bernoulli, in His Excellent Treatise on the Doctrine of Chances, Intitled, Ars Conjectandi, and by the Celebrated Dr. John Wallis, of Oxford, in a Tract Intitled from the Subject, and Published at the End of His Treatise on Algebra: in the Former of which Tracts is Contained a Demonstration of Sir Isaac Newton's Famous Binomial Theorem, in the Cases of Integral Powers, and of the Reciprocals of Integral Powers. Together with Some Useful Mathematical Tracts. Published by Francis Maseres, and more
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society
Education: Kingston Grammar School
