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| ''' John Wallis''' (23 November 1616 – 28 October 1703) was an English [[Mathematics|mathematician]] who is given partial credit for the development of [[infinitesimal calculus]]. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief [[cryptographer]] for [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] and, later, the royal court.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Smith, David Eugene|authorlink=David Eugene Smith|title=John Wallis as a cryptographer|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1917|volume=24|issue=2|pages=82–96|mr=1560009}}</ref> He is also credited with introducing the [[symbol]] <math>{\infty}</math> for [[infinity]]. He similarly used <math>\frac{1}{\infty}</math> for an [[infinitesimal]]. [[Asteroid]] [[31982 Johnwallis]] was named after him.
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| John Wallis was born in [[Ashford, Kent]], the third of five children of Reverend John Wallis and Joanna Chapman. He was initially educated at a local Ashford school, but moved to James Movat's school in [[Tenterden]] in 1625 following an outbreak of [[Bubonic plague|plague]]. Wallis was first exposed to mathematics in 1631, at Martin Holbeach's [[Felsted School|school in Felsted]]; he enjoyed maths, but his study was erratic, since: "''mathematics, at that time with us, were scarce looked on as academical studies, but rather mechanical''" ([[#References|Scriba 1970]]).
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| As it was intended that he should be a doctor, he was sent in 1632 to [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id=WLS632J|name=Wallys, John}}</ref> While there, he kept an ''act'' on the doctrine of the [[circulation of the blood]]; that was said to have been the first occasion in Europe on which this theory was publicly maintained in a disputation. His interests, however, centred on mathematics. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1637, and a Master's in 1640, afterwards entering the priesthood. From 1643–49, he served as a non-voting scribe at the [[Westminster Assembly]]. Wallis was elected to a fellowship at [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] in 1644, which he however had to resign following his marriage.
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| Throughout this time, Wallis had been close to the Parliamentarian party, perhaps as a result of his exposure to Holbeach at Felsted School. He rendered them great practical assistance in deciphering Royalist dispatches. The quality of cryptography at that time was mixed; despite the individual successes of mathematicians such as [[François Viète]], the principles underlying cipher design and analysis were very poorly understood. Most ciphers were ad-hoc methods relying on a secret [[algorithm]], as opposed to systems based on a variable [[key (cryptography)|key]]. Wallis realised that the latter were far more secure – even describing them as "unbreakable", though he was not confident enough in this assertion to encourage revealing cryptographic algorithms. He was also concerned about the use of ciphers by foreign powers; refusing, for example, [[Gottfried Leibniz]]'s request of 1697 to teach [[Electorate of Hanover|Hanoverian]] students about cryptography.
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| Returning to London – he had been made chaplain at [[St Gabriel Fenchurch]], in 1643 – Wallis joined the group of scientists that was later to evolve into the [[Royal Society]]. He was finally able to indulge his mathematical interests, mastering [[William Oughtred]]'s ''Clavis Mathematicae'' in a few weeks in 1647. He soon began to write his own treatises, dealing with a wide range of topics, continuing throughout his life.
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| Wallis joined the moderate Presbyterians in signing the remonstrance against the execution of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], by which he incurred the lasting hostility of the Independents. In spite of their opposition he was appointed in 1649 to be the [[Savilian Professor of Geometry|Savilian Chair of Geometry]] at Oxford University, where he lived until his death on 28 October 1703. In 1661, he was one of twelve [[Presbyterian]] representatives at the [[Savoy Conference]].
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| Besides his mathematical works he wrote on [[theology]], [[logic]], [[English grammar]] and philosophy, and he was involved in devising a system for teaching deaf-mutes. Although [[William Holder]] had earlier taught a deaf man [[Alexander Popham]] to speak ‘plainly and distinctly, and with a good and graceful tone’.<ref>W. Holder, ‘Of an experiment, concerning deafness’,Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society3 (1668), 665–8</ref> Wallis later claimed credit for this, leading Holder to accuse Wallis of 'rifling his Neighbours, and adorning himself with their spoyls’.<ref>Holder,PTRS Supplement, 10</ref>
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| == Contributions to mathematics ==
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| Wallis made significant contributions to [[trigonometry]], [[calculus]], [[geometry]], and the analysis of [[infinite series]]. In his ''Opera Mathematica'' I (1695) Wallis introduced the term "[[continued fraction]]".
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| Wallis rejected as absurd the now usual idea of a negative number as being less than nothing, but accepted the view that it is something greater than infinity. (The argument that negative numbers are greater than infinity involves the quotient <math>\frac{1}{x}</math> and considering what happens as x approaches and then crosses the point x = 0 from the positive side.) Despite this he is generally credited as the originator of the idea of the [[number line]] where numbers are represented geometrically in a line with the negative numbers represented by lengths opposite in direction to lengths of positive numbers.<ref name="Martínez2006">{{cite book|author=Alberto A. Martínez|title=Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8HSodlYby9MC&pg=PA22|accessdate=9 June 2013|year=2006|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-12309-7|page=22}}</ref>
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| ===Analytical geometry===
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| In 1655, Wallis published a treatise on [[conic sections]] in which they were defined analytically. This was the earliest book in which these curves are considered and defined as curves of the second degree. It helped to remove some of the perceived difficulty and obscurity of [[René Descartes]]' work on [[analytic geometry]].
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| It was in the ''Treatise on the Conic Sections'' that John Wallis popularised the symbol ∞ for infinity. He wrote, “I suppose any plane (following the ''Geometry of Indivisibles'' of Cavalieri) to be made up of an infinite number of parallel lines, or as I would prefer, of an infinite number of parallelograms of the same altitude; (let the altitude of each one of these be an infinitely small part, <math>\frac{1}{\infty }</math> of the whole altitude, and let the symbol ∞ denote Infinity) and the altitude of all to make up the altitude of the figure.”<ref>Scott, J.F. 1981. ‘’The Mathematical Work of John Wallis, D.D., F.R.S. (1616–1703)’’. Chelsea Publishing Co. New York, NY. p. 18.</ref>
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| ===Integral calculus===
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| ''Arithmetica Infinitorum'', the most important of Wallis's works, was published in 1656. In this treatise the methods of analysis of Descartes and [[Bonaventura Cavalieri|Cavalieri]] were systematised and extended, but some ideals were open to criticism. He begins, after a short tract on conic sections, by developing the standard notation for powers, extending them from [[positive integers]] to [[rational numbers]]:
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| :<math> x^{-1} = \frac 1 x </math>
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| :<math> x^{-n} = \frac {1} {x^n} \text{ etc.} </math>
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| :<math> x^{1/2} = \sqrt{x} </math>
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| :<math> x^{2/3} = \sqrt[3]{x^2} \text{ etc.} </math>
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| :<math> x^{1/n} = \sqrt[n]{x} </math>
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| :<math> x^{p/q} = \sqrt[q]{x^p} </math>
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| Leaving the numerous algebraic applications of this discovery, he next proceeds to find, by [[Integral|integration]], the area enclosed between the curve ''y'' = ''x''<sup>''m''</sup>, the axis of ''x'', and any ordinate ''x'' = ''h'', and he proves that the ratio of this area to that of the parallelogram on the same base and of the same height is 1/(''m'' + 1), extending [[Cavalieri's quadrature formula]]. He apparently assumed that the same result would be true also for the curve ''y'' = ''ax''<sup>''m''</sup>, where ''a'' is any constant, and ''m'' any number positive or negative; but he discusses only the case of the parabola in which ''m'' = 2, and that of the hyperbola in which ''m'' = −1. In the latter case, his interpretation of the result is incorrect. He then shows that similar results may be written down for any curve of the form
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| : <math> y = \sum_{m}^{} ax^{m} </math>
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| and hence that, if the ordinate ''y'' of a curve can be expanded in powers of ''x'', its area can be determined: thus he says that if the equation of the curve is ''y'' = ''x''<sup>0</sup> + ''x''<sup>1</sup> + ''x''<sup>2</sup> + ..., its area would be ''x'' + x<sup>2</sup>/2 + ''x''<sup>3</sup>/3 + ... He then applies this to the [[Numerical integration|quadrature]] of the curves ''y'' = (''x'' − ''x''<sup>2</sup>)<sup>0</sup>, ''y'' = (''x'' − ''x''<sup>2</sup>)<sup>1</sup>, ''y'' = (''x'' − ''x''<sup>2</sup>)<sup>2</sup>, etc., taken between the limits ''x'' = 0 and ''x'' = 1. He shows that the areas are respectively 1, 1/6, 1/30, 1/140, etc. He next considers curves of the form ''y'' = ''x''<sup>1/m</sup> and establishes the theorem that the area bounded by this curve and the lines ''x'' = 0 and ''x'' = 1 is equal to the area of the rectangle on the same base and of the same altitude as ''m'' : ''m'' + 1. This is equivalent to computing
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| :<math>\int_0^1x^{1/m}\,dx.</math>
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| He illustrates this by the parabola, in which case ''m'' = 2. He states, but does not prove, the corresponding result for a curve of the form ''y'' = ''x''<sup>p/q</sup>.
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| Wallis showed considerable ingenuity in reducing the equations of curves to the forms given above, but, as he was unacquainted with the [[binomial theorem]], he could not effect the [[quadrature of the circle]], whose equation is <math>y = \sqrt{1 - x^2}</math>, since he was unable to expand this in powers of ''x''. He laid down, however, the principle of [[interpolation]]. Thus, as the ordinate of the circle <math>y = \sqrt{1 - x^2}</math> is the [[Geometric mean|geometrical mean]] between the ordinates of the curves <math>y = (1 - x^2)^0</math> and <math>y = (1 - x^2)^1</math>, it might be supposed that, as an approximation, the area of the semicircle <math>\int_{0}^{1} \sqrt{1 - x^2}\, dx</math> which is <math>\begin{matrix} \frac{1}{4} \end{matrix} \pi</math> might be taken as the geometrical mean between the values of
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| that is, 1 and <math>\begin{matrix} \frac{2}{3} \end{matrix}</math>; this is equivalent to taking <math>4 \sqrt{\begin{matrix} \frac{2}{3} \end{matrix}}</math> or 3.26... as the value of π. But, Wallis argued, we have in fact a series <math>1, \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{6} \end{matrix}, \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{30} \end{matrix}, \begin{matrix} \frac{1}{140} \end{matrix},</math>... and therefore the term interpolated between 1 and <math>\begin{matrix} \frac{1}{6} \end{matrix}</math> ought to be chosen so as to obey the law of this series{{Clarify|date=July 2010}}. This, by an elaborate method that is not described here in detail, leads to a value for the interpolated term which is equivalent to taking
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| :<math>\frac{\pi}{2} = \frac21\cdot\frac23\cdot\frac43\cdot\frac45\cdot\frac65\cdot\frac67\cdots</math>
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| (which is now known as the [[Wallis product]]).
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| In this work also the formation and properties of [[continued fraction]]s are discussed, the subject having been brought into prominence by [[William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker|Brouncker]]'s use of these fractions.
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| A few years later, in 1659, Wallis published a tract containing the solution of the problems on the [[cycloid]] which had been proposed by [[Blaise Pascal]]. In this he incidentally explained how the principles laid down in his ''Arithmetica Infinitorum'' could be used for the rectification of algebraic curves; and gave a solution of the problem to rectify (i.e. find the length of) the semi-cubical parabola ''x''<sup>3</sup> = ''ay''<sup>2</sup>, which had been discovered in 1657 by his pupil [[William Neile]]. Since all attempts to rectify the ellipse and hyperbola had been (necessarily) ineffectual, it had been supposed that no curves could be rectified, as indeed Descartes had definitely asserted to be the case. The [[logarithmic spiral]] had been rectified by [[Evangelista Torricelli]], and was the first curved line (other than the circle) whose length was determined, but the extension by Neile and Wallis to an algebraic curve was novel. The cycloid was the next curve rectified; this was done by [[Christopher Wren|Wren]] in 1658.
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| Early in 1658 a similar discovery, independent of that of Neile, was made by [[van Heuraët]], and this was published by [[van Schooten]] in his edition of Descartes's Geometria in 1659. Van Heuraët's method is as follows. He supposes the curve to be referred to rectangular axes; if this be so, and if (''x'', ''y'') be the coordinates of any point on it, and ''n'' be the length of the normal{{Clarify|date=July 2010}}, and if another point whose coordinates are (''x, η'') be taken such that ''η : h = n : y'', where h is a constant; then, if ''ds'' be the element of the length of the required curve, we have by similar triangles ''ds : dx = n : y''. Therefore ''h ds = η dx''. Hence, if the area of the locus of the point (''x, η'') can be found, the first curve can be rectified. In this way van Heuraët effected the rectification of the curve y<sup>3</sup> = ax<sup>2</sup> but added that the rectification of the parabola y<sup>2</sup> = ax is impossible since it requires the quadrature of the hyperbola. The solutions given by Neile and Wallis are somewhat similar to that given by van Heuraët, though no general rule is enunciated, and the analysis is clumsy. A third method was suggested by [[Pierre de Fermat|Fermat]] in 1660, but it is inelegant and laborious.
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| ===Collision of bodies===
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| The theory of the [[collision of bodies]] was propounded by the [[Royal Society]] in 1668 for the consideration of mathematicians. Wallis, [[Christopher Wren]], and [[Christian Huygens]] sent correct and similar solutions, all depending on what is now called the [[conservation of momentum]]; but, while Wren and Huygens confined their theory to perfectly elastic bodies ([[elastic collision]]), Wallis considered also imperfectly elastic bodies ([[inelastic collision]]). This was followed in 1669 by a work on [[statics]] (centres of gravity), and in 1670 by one on [[Analytical dynamics|dynamics]]: these provide a convenient synopsis of what was then known on the subject
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| ===Algebra===
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| In 1685 Wallis published ''Algebra'', preceded by a historical account of the development of the subject, which contains a great deal of valuable information. The second edition, issued in 1693 and forming the second volume of his ''Opera'', was considerably enlarged. This algebra is noteworthy as containing the first systematic use of formulae. A given magnitude is here represented by the numerical ratio which it bears to the unit of the same kind of magnitude: thus, when Wallis wants to compare two lengths he regards each as containing so many units of length. This perhaps will be made clearer by noting that the relation between the space described in any time by a particle moving with a uniform velocity is denoted by Wallis by the formula
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| where ''s'' is the number representing the ratio of the space described to the unit of length; while the previous writers would have denoted the same relation by stating what is equivalent to the proposition
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| :''s<sub>1</sub> : s<sub>2</sub> = v<sub>1</sub>t<sub>1</sub> : v<sub>2</sub>t<sub>2</sub>''.
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| ===Geometry===
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| He is usually credited with the proof of the [[Pythagorean theorem]] using [[similar triangles]]. However, [[Thabit Ibn Qurra]] (AD 901), an Arab mathematician, had produced a generalisation of the Pythagorean theorem applicable to all triangles six centuries earlier. It is a reasonable conjecture that Wallis was aware of Thabit's work.<ref>{{cite book|first=G.G.|last=Joseph|title=The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of Mathematics|edition=2|publisher=Penguin|year=2000|isbn=0-14-027778-1|page=337}}</ref>
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| Wallis was also inspired by the works of Islamic mathematician Sadr al-Tusi, the son of [[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]], particularly by al-Tusi's book written in 1298 on the [[parallel postulate]]. The book was based on his father's thoughts which presented one of the earliest arguments for a non-Euclidean hypothesis equivalent to the parallel postulate. After reading this, Wallis then wrote about his ideas as he developed his own thoughts about the postulate, trying to prove it also with similar triangles.<ref>The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam:A Sourcebook [http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8583.html Victor J. Katz Princeton University Press]</ref>
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| He found that [[Parallel postulate|Euclid's fifth postulate]] is equivalent to the one currently named "Wallis postulate" after him. This postulate states that "On a given finite straight line it is always possible to construct a triangle similar to a given triangle". This result was encompassed in a trend trying to deduce Euclid's fifth from the other four postulates which today is known to be impossible. It is quite remarkable that, unlike other authors, he realised that the unbounded growth of a triangle was not guaranteed by the four first postulates.
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| ===Calculator===
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| One aspect of Wallis's mathematical skills has not yet been mentioned, namely his great ability to do mental calculations. He slept badly and often did mental calculations as he lay awake in his bed. One night he calculated in his head the square root of a number with 53 digits. In the morning he dictated the 27-digit square root of the number, still entirely from memory. It was a feat that was rightly considered remarkable, and [[Henry Oldenburg]], the Secretary of the Royal Society, sent a colleague to investigate how Wallis did it. It was considered important enough to merit discussion in the ''Philosophical Transactions'' of the Royal Society of 1685.
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| ===Controversy with Hobbes===
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| {{details|Hobbes-Wallis controversy}}
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| A long-running debate between Wallis and [[Thomas Hobbes]] arose in the mid-1650s, when mathematicians criticised errors in the work ''[[De corpore]]'' by Hobbes. It continued into the 1670s, having gathered in the later claims of Hobbes on [[squaring the circle]], and the wider beliefs on both sides.
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| == Music theory ==
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| Wallis translated into Latin works of [[Ptolemy]], Bryennius, and Porphyrius's commentary on Ptolemy. He also published three letters to [[Henry Oldenburg]] concerning tuning. He approved of [[equal temperament]] that was being used in England's organs.<ref>David Damschoder and David Russell Williams, ''Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide'' (Stytvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1990), p. 374.</ref>
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| ==Other works==
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| His ''Institutio logicae'', published in 1687, was very popular. The ''Grammatica linguae Anglicanae'' was a work on [[English grammar]], that remained in print well into the eighteenth century. He also published on theology.<ref>[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/John_Wallis John Wallis<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| ==Family==
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| On 14 March 1645 he married '''Susanna Glynde''' (16??-16 March 1687) with three children:
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| #'''Anne Wallis''' (4 June 1656-5 April 1718), married Sir John Blencowe (30 November 1642-6 May 1726) in 1675, with issue<ref>[http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/person/0d50f71a-0d3e-4e9b-98d8-f5981c533910 Early Modern Letters Online : Person<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| #'''John Wallis''' (26 December 1650-14 March 1717<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/wallis-john-1650-1717 WALLIS, John (1650-1717), of Soundness, Nettlebed, Oxon. | History of Parliament Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>), MP for Wallingford 1690-1695, married Elizabeth Harris (−1693) on 1 February 1682, with issue: one son and two daughters
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| #'''Elizabeth Wallis''' (1658–1703<ref>[http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/person/e4d46f16-a83a-4375-bbc1-88e939f95622 Early Modern Letters Online : Person<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>), married William Benson (1649-1691) of Towcester, died with no issue
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| ==In fiction==
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| Wallis is portrayed in an unfavourable way in the historical mystery novel ''[[An Instance of the Fingerpost]]'' by [[Iain Pears]].
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| == See also ==
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| *[[Wallis’s conical edge]]
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| *[[John Wallis Academy]] – former Christ Church school in Ashford renamed in 2010
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| * [[Invisible College]]
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| *[[Wallis' integrals]]
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| ==Footnotes==
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| == References ==
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| The initial text of this article was taken from the [[public domain]] resource:
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| [[W. W. Rouse Ball]], 1908.
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| ''[http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Wallis/RouseBall/RB_Wallis.html A Short Account of the History of Mathematics,]'' 4th ed.
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| * Scriba, C J, 1970, "The autobiography of John Wallis, F.R.S.," ''Notes and Records Roy. Soc. London'' '''25''': 17–46.
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| *Stedall, Jacqueline, 2005, "Arithmetica Infinitorum" in [[Ivor Grattan-Guinness]], ed., ''Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics''. Elsevier: 23–32.
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| ==External links==
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| * {{DNB Cite|wstitle=Wallis, John (1616–1703)}}
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| * {{MacTutor Biography|id=Wallis}}
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| * [http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/wallis.html Galileo Project page]
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| * {{NRA | id=P29624}}
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