References for Benjamin Franklin

  1. I B Cohen, Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
    http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/217331/Benjamin-Franklin
  2. Obituary in The Times [available on the Web]

Articles:

  1. P C Pasles, The Lost Squares of Dr. Franklin, American Mathematical Monthly 108 (2001), 489-511.

June 2001

MacTutor History of Mathematics
[http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/References/Franklin_Benjamin.html]