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Join the room“In 1686 Wallis published an Algebra, preceded by a historical account of the development of the subject which contains a great deal of valuable information... This algebra is noteworthy as containing the first systematic use of formulae.”
“Wallis’s 1656 Arithmetic of infinities was a crucial text for Newton’s development of calculus, a fact that Newton... related to Gottfried Leibniz in a... letter.”
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John Wallis was an English cleric, antiquarian, naturalist and county historian.
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