Essays Tagged: "John Wallis"

Blaise Pascal

o made an essential contribution to the field of combinatory analysis. It also 'through the work of John Wallis it led Isaac Newton to the discovery of the binomial theorem for fractional and negative ...

(7 pages) 98 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

John Wallis

John Wallis was born in the later part of the month November in 1616. It was the 22 of November in A ... e 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 thro ... www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Wallis/RouseBall/RB_Wallis.html2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallis3. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Wallis.html

(4 pages) 25 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

Life of Thomas Hobbes

t his life, Thomas Hobbes faced several issues. One issue he faced was the controversy among Bishop John Bramhall. After completing De Corpore in 1654, a small treatise, Of Liberty and Necessity was p ... f the Castigations.Another controversy that Hobbes faced was with a Savilian professor of geometry, John Wallis. Errors in his book De Corpore, is what led Wallis to criticize Hobbes. "Wallis's Elench ...

(7 pages) 18 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History