- First name
- John
- Last name
- Wallis
- Date of Birth
- 1616
- Date of Death
- 1703
- Born in
- Ashford
- Died in
- Oxford
John Wallis was the Founder Fellow of the ‘Invisible College’ of natural philosophers (the later Royal Society). He is one of the most influential English mathematicians alongside Isaac Newton. He was the first Savilian professor of geometry in Oxford (1649). Wallis’s fame rests upon Arithmetica infinitorum, … (1656), a work on integration and infinite series, and on Commercium epistolicum … (Oxford, 1658), a treatise he which he deals with number theory. Another famous work was Mechanica, sive, de motu, tractatus geometricus (1670–71), which is considered a major contribution in mechanics. See: ODNB.