John Wallis
1616-1703
English Mathematician
John Wallis coined the mathematical use of the word "interpolation," and was the first to use the infinity symbol (∞). He introduced a ...
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John Wallis
1616-1703
English mathematician who, with Christiaan Huygens and Christopher Wren, established conservation of momentum (1668). In Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656) he presented a method for ...
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John Wallis was a founding member of the Royal Society, one of the oldest scientific organizations still in existence, and is considered by many the most influential British mathematician preceding Is...
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Born in Ashford, England, Wallis was the son of minister, who died when Wallis was only six years old. In 1631 he attended the Martin Holbeach school in Essex, where he trained in Latin, Greek, Hebrew...
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The Reverend John Wallis had become a minister in Ashford in 1602 (2). The Reverend Wallis married Joanna Chapman, who was his second wife, in 1612 (2). Young Wallis was born on November the 23ed, 161...
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John Wallis
John Wallis
John Wallis
