Francis Maseres
Francis Maseres (15 December 1731 – 19 May 1824) was an English lawyer.
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Quotes
[edit]- [negative numbers] ‘…darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their nature excessively obvious and simple.’
- Francis Maseres in 1758 quoted in Rogers, Leo. The History of Negative Numbers, 2009 (https://nrich.maths.org/5961, accessed 15 August 2021)., and quoted in : Bhaskar Kamble, The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and why this History was Erased, Garuda Prakashan Private Limited, 2022 ISBN 9798885750189
