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    John Wallis (/ˈwɒlɪs/; Latin: Wallisius; 3 December [O.S. 23 November] 1616 – 8 November [O.S. 28 October] 1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician...
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  • Braithwaite Wallis (1877–1961), Canadian entomologist J. E. P. Wallis (1861–1946), Anglo-Indian judge Jon Wallis (born 1986), English footballer John Wallace...
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    sons John Wallis Jr. and Edward Wallis, he was one of the most prolific publishers of board games of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Wallis's company...
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    In mathematics, the Wallis product for π, published in 1656 by John Wallis, states that π 2 = ∏ n = 1 ∞ 4 n 2 4 n 2 − 1 = ∏ n = 1 ∞ ( 2 n 2 n − 1 ⋅ 2 n...
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  • more precisely in analysis, the Wallis integrals constitute a family of integrals introduced by John Wallis. The Wallis integrals are the terms of the...
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    1668. He published them in the Journal des sçavans in 1669. In 1670, John Wallis, in Mechanica sive De Motu, Tractatus Geometricus, stated the law of...
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  • mathematician John Wallis is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De sectionibus conicis. Wallis did not...
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    Thomas Hobbes (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    and sparked John Wallis to become one of his most persistent opponents. From 1655, the publishing date of De Corpore, Hobbes and Wallis continued name-calling...
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    International Film Festival. Wallis stars alongside Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Roman Griffin Davis. In March 2024, Wallis joined Amazon MGM Studios'...
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  • his curate". Wallis, had to leave, and was taken into the family of his college friend Edward Wilson, vicar of Haltwhistle. In 1775 Wallis acted as temporary...
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    Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and...
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    until they were defeated. The island was renamed "Wallis" after a Cornish navigator, Captain Samuel Wallis, who saw it while sailing aboard HMS Dolphin on...
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    by a European navigator to Tahiti. Wallis was born at Fentenwoon Farm, near Camelford, Cornwall. He served under John Byron. In 1757, he was promoted to...
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    The Kruskal–Wallis test by ranks, Kruskal–Wallis H {\displaystyle H} test (named after William Kruskal and W. Allen Wallis), or one-way ANOVA on ranks...
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    scholasticism, and behind Wallis he saw "all the Ecclesiastics of England". Sorbière visited Wallis in Oxford; but his analysis of Wallis as stereotypical pedant...
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    stages of their careers [including] Wallis Professor Sir John Kingman (1990) ... Alexanderson, Gerald (2012). "John Wallis and Oxford" (PDF). Bulletin of the...
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  • founder of Wallis Cinemas in Adelaide Jim Wallis, American social justice Christian activist Jimmy Wallis, British athlete John Wallis (1616–1703),...
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    infinite numbers and infinite expressions in a systematic fashion. In 1655, John Wallis first used the notation ∞ {\displaystyle \infty } for such a number in...
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  • John Wallis "Jack" Rowe is an American businessman and academic physician, who served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc., a large health insurance company...
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  • The John Wallis Church of England Academy is a mixed all-through school with academy status in Ashford, Kent. It was known as Christ Church Church of...
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    Wiltshire to John Titt and Eliza Titt (née Wallis). The farm had a post mill, which he worked for his father until he left in 1865 to join Messrs Wallis, Haslan...
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  • Neil John Wallis (born 4 October 1950) is a British former newspaper editor. He is currently a media consultant and media commentator. Wallis was born...
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  • mistress of Wallis while he was married to Fazenda. Wallis was married to actress Martha Hyer from 1966 until his death in 1986. Hyer wanted Wallis to include...
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    John Wallis was an English board game publisher, bookseller, map/chart seller, printseller, music seller, and cartographer. With his sons John Wallis...
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    The funeral of Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer, later Simpson), took place on April 29, 1986. Wallis was the widow...
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    linked to Lili Reinhart. "Wallis day". Models 1. Archived from the original on 28 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021. Day, Wallis [@wallisday] (26 September...
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  • formula, the first published infinite product in mathematics) and John Wallis (Wallis product): 2π=22⋅2+22⋅2+2+22⋅⋯{\displaystyle {\frac {2}{\pi }}={\frac...
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  • John Wallis (1674 or 1675 – 28 January 1738) was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1703 until his death. Wallis matriculated...
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    contains no infinite or infinitesimal members. The English mathematician John Wallis introduced the expression 1/∞ in his 1655 book Treatise on the Conic...
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  • and Euclid, relations were conceived as whole numbers (Michell, 1993). John Wallis later conceived of ratios of magnitudes as real numbers: When a comparison...
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