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John Wallis (/ ˈ w ɒ l ɪ s /; [2] Latin: Wallisius; 3 December [O.S. 23 November] 1616 – 8 November [O.S. 28 October] 1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician, who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus.
Mathematics portal; John Wallis, English mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus and pi. Viète's formula, a different infinite product formula for . Leibniz formula for π, an infinite sum that can be converted into an infinite Euler product for π. Wallis sieve
The Wallis Professorship of Mathematics is a chair in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. It was established in 1969 in honour of John Wallis , who was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 to 1703.
Frontispiece of Operum Mathematicorum Pars Prima (1657) by John Wallis, the first volume of Opera Mathematica including a chapter entitled Mathesis Universalis.. Mathesis universalis (from Greek: μάθησις, mathesis "science or learning", and Latin: universalis "universal") is a hypothetical universal science modelled on mathematics envisaged by Descartes and Leibniz, among a number of ...
The Hobbes–Wallis controversy was a polemic debate that continued from the mid-1650s well into the 1670s, between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the mathematician and clergyman John Wallis. It was sparked by De corpore , a philosophical work by Hobbes in the general area of physics .
In mathematics, and more precisely in analysis, the Wallis integrals constitute a family of integrals introduced by John Wallis. Definition, basic properties [ edit ]
According to a story recounted in 1693 by English mathematician John Wallis, Prince Rupert wagered that a hole could be cut through a cube, large enough to let another cube of the same size pass through it. Wallis showed that in fact such a hole was possible (with some errors that were not corrected until much later), and Prince Rupert won his ...
The Wallis Professor of Mathematics was created in 1969 to celebrate John Wallis, who was Savilian Professor of Geometry for 54 years. [37] The Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics was created as a result of a Royal Commission reviewing the university in 1877. It honours the 15th-century bishop William of Waynflete, founder of Magdalen ...