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The Mathematical Work of John Wallis
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- Early life and training
- The beginnings of the Royal Society. Wallis's part in its early history. Appointment as Savilian Professor of Geometry
- The treatise on the conic sections
- The Arithmetica Infinitorum
- The Mathesis Universalis. The Commercium Epistolicum (1657/8). Controversy with Fermat and other members of the French Mathematical School
- Appointment as Custos Archivorum. The quarrel with Doctor Holder
- The Mechanica, sive Tractatus De Motu
- The Hooke-Hevelius dispute. Publication of ancient manuscripts
- The Treatise of Algebra
- The dispute with Hobbes summarised
- Conclusion. Importance of Wallis's work to succeeding generations
- Appendix I. Brief biographies of Wallis's contemporaries and immediate predecessors, who are mentioned in this work
- II. Some observations on the development of notation during the seventeenth century, with specimens of notation then current
- III. List of Wallis's mathematical works, including his contributions to the Transactions
- Bibliography
- Index
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