NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wallis, John, 1616-1703 NRA: Wallis, John (1616-1703) Mathematician DNB: Wallis, John (1616–1703), mathematician and cryptographer LBT ID: JoWalli1703 VIAF ID: 100212546 LOC ID: n81119439 | B/BAP: 1616-12-03 DIED: 1703-10-28 |
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Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was a theologian and mathematician, appointed
in 1649 to the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford University. | |