John Wallis

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John Wallis (c.1567–1633) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624.

Occupation: politician
Position held: Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1621-22 Parliament, Member of the 1624-25 Parliament, Chief Justice of High Court of Madras

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John Wallis (c.1567–1633) was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1624. Wallis was a merchant of King's Lynn and is recorded in 1601 as purchasing a boat for £80. He became mayor of King's Lynn in 1622 after Thomas Snelling the holder of the office died. In 1624 he was re-elected MP for King's Lynn. He was mayor of King's Lynn again in 1631. References English MPs 1621–1622 English MPs 1624–1625 Mayors of King's Lynn Place of birth missing Year of birth uncertain 1633 deaths

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“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.”
— Note: see De algebra tractatus, historicus & practicus (1693)
“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.”
— Ref: The correspondence of Isaac Newton (1959–1977) ed. H. W. Turnbull, Vol. 2, p. 111.

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John Wallis

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