1616 - 1703
John Wallis (; Latin: Wallisius; 3 December [O.S. 23 November] 1616 – 8 November [O.S. 28 October] 1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. He is credited with introducing the symbol ∞ to represent the concept of infinity. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wallis has received more than 315,627 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. John Wallis is the 112th most popular mathematician (down from 104th in 2019), the 541st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 459th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Mathematician.
John Wallis is most famous for his work in the field of mathematics. His work in the field of mathematics includes inventing the first symbolic method for solving algebraic equations, inventing the first symbolic method for solving cubic equations, and inventing the first symbolic method for solving quartic equations.
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Among mathematicians, John Wallis ranks 112 out of 828. Before him are Meton of Athens, Edward Norton Lorenz, Hippocrates of Chios, Lodovico Ferrari, Gabriel Cramer, and Girard Desargues. After him are Leonid Kantorovich, Charles Hermite, Brook Taylor, John Horton Conway, Ferdinand von Lindemann, and Robert Grosseteste.
500 BC - Present
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Rank: 106
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 107
470 BC - 410 BC
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 108
1522 - 1565
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 109
1704 - 1752
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 110
1591 - 1661
HPI: 72.43
Rank: 111
1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 112
1912 - 1986
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 113
1822 - 1901
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 114
1685 - 1731
HPI: 72.19
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1937 - 2020
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 116
1852 - 1939
HPI: 71.92
Rank: 117
1175 - 1253
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 118
Among people born in 1616, John Wallis ranks 1. After him are Johann Jakob Froberger, Andreas Gryphius, Ferdinand Bol, Carlo Dolci, Thomas Bartholin, Anne Gonzaga, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, Sébastien Bourdon, Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria, Kuzma Minin, and John Owen. Among people deceased in 1703, John Wallis ranks 5. Before him are Robert Hooke, Charles Perrault, Mustafa II, and Man in the Iron Mask. After him are Vincenzo Viviani, Johann Christoph Bach, Samuel Pepys, Ilona Zrínyi, Erik Dahlbergh, Thomas Kingo, and Nicolas de Grigny.
1616 - 1703
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1616 - 1667
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1616 - 1664
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1616 - 1680
HPI: 68.71
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1616 - 1686
HPI: 68.57
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1616 - 1680
HPI: 68.42
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1616 - 1684
HPI: 67.47
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1616 - 1669
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1616 - 1671
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Rank: 9
1616 - 1676
HPI: 63.77
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1616 - 1616
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1616 - 1683
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1635 - 1703
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1628 - 1703
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1664 - 1703
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1640 - 1703
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1616 - 1703
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1622 - 1703
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1642 - 1703
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1633 - 1703
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1643 - 1703
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1625 - 1703
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1634 - 1703
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1672 - 1703
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Among people born in United Kingdom, John Wallis ranks 541 out of 6,924. Before him are Tony Scott (1944), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), John Bunyan (1628), Charles Laughton (1899), Richard Branson (1950), and Thomas Chippendale (1718). After him are Charles Dance (1946), Pope Adrian IV (1100), Marie of Romania (1875), John Edward Gray (1800), Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (1473).
1944 - 2012
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1844 - 1900
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1628 - 1688
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1899 - 1962
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1950 - Present
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1718 - 1779
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1616 - 1703
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1946 - Present
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1100 - 1159
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1875 - 1938
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1800 - 1875
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880 - 1000
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1473 - 1483
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Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Wallis ranks 10. Before him are George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Thomas Harriot (1560), and John Couch Adams (1819). After him are Brook Taylor (1685), John Horton Conway (1937), Robert Grosseteste (1175), William Oughtred (1574), Andrew Wiles (1953), and James Joseph Sylvester (1814).
1815 - 1864
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1861 - 1947
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1877 - 1947
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1631 - 1677
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1560 - 1621
HPI: 73.12
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1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 9
1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 10
1685 - 1731
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 11
1937 - 2020
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12
1175 - 1253
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 13
1574 - 1660
HPI: 71.53
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1953 - Present
HPI: 71.13
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1814 - 1897
HPI: 70.79
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