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...

Braithwaite Wallis (1877–1961), Canadian entomologist J. E. P. Wallis (1861–1946), Anglo-Indian judge Jon Wallis (born 1986), English footballer John Wallace...

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...

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...

more precisely in analysis, the Wallis integrals constitute a family of integrals introduced by John Wallis. The Wallis integrals are the terms of the...

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...

mathematician John Wallis is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De sectionibus conicis. Wallis did not...

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...

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...

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...