Education
Roberts studied at Queen Elizabeth"s Grammar School, Horncastle. Next he studied law and became a solicitor in 1853.
Roberts studied at Queen Elizabeth"s Grammar School, Horncastle. Next he studied law and became a solicitor in 1853.
He matriculated in 1845 at the University of London, where he earned in 1847 his bachelor"s degree in mathematics and in 1849 his master"s degree in mathematics and physics, as first in his class. After a few years of law practice he abandoned his law career and returned to mathematics, although he never had an academic position. He had his first mathematical paper published in 1848.
In 1865 he was an important participant in the founding of the London Mathematical Society (Learning Management System).
From 1866 to 1892 he acted as legal counsel for Learning Management System, from 1872 to 1880 he was the organization"s treasurer, and from 1880 to 1882 its president In 1878 he was elected Federal Reserve System. Roberts published papers in several fields of mathematics, including geometry, interpolation theory, and Diophantine equations.
Roberts and Pafnuty Chebyschev are jointly credited with the Roberts-Chebyshev theorem related to four-bar linkages.
Royal Society.