John Wallis was born in the later part of the month November in 1616. It was the 22 of November in Ashford Kent when Reverend John Wallis and Joanna Chapman had there third out five children. John Wallis was very educated throughout his life he attended a small local school (Ashford School) but then moved on to James Movat's School in Tenterden in 1625 because of a current plaque that went through. In 1631 he was introduced to mathematics, …
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…curious to note that Wallis rejected as absurd the now usual idea of a negative number as being less than nothing, but accepted the view that it is something greater than infinity. References: 1.<Tab/>http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Wallis/RouseBall/RB_Wallis.html 2.<Tab/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallis 3.<Tab/>http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Wallis.html