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John Wallis

The Wallis Professorship of Mathematics is a chair in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. It was established in 1969 in honour of John Wallis, who was Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford from 1649 to 1703.

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Wallis Professor of Mathematics

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The Wallis Professorship of Mathematics is a chair in the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. It was established in 1969 in honour of John...

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Simon Donaldson

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for Advanced Study in Princeton, and returned to Oxford as Wallis Professor of Mathematics in 1985. After spending one year visiting Stanford University...

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John Kingman

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range of subjects. He held this post until 1969, when he moved, figuratively, but not physically, to Oxford as Wallis Professor of Mathematics, a position...

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John Wallis

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The mathematical work of John Wallis (1616-1703), Taylor and Francis, 1938, p. 109. Random House Dictionary. Smith, David Eugene (1917). "John Wallis As...

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List of professorships at the University of Oxford

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Professor of English Law Visiting Professor of Opera Studies W.A. Handley Professor of Psychiatry Wallis Professor of Mathematics Watts Professor of Psychology...

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Savilian Professor of Geometry

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"one of the most useful systems for mathematics". The third professor, John Wallis, introduced the use of ∞ for infinity, and was regarded as "one of the...

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Jennifer Seberry

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Seberry Wallis; born 13 February 1944 in Sydney) is an Australian cryptographer, mathematician, and computer scientist, currently a professor at the University...

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William Kruskal

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best known for having formulated the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance (together with W. Allen Wallis), a widely used nonparametric statistical...

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Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy

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The Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy is the name of a chair at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford. The Sedleian Chair was...

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Anne Penfold Street

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(1932–2016) was one of Australia's leading mathematicians, specialising in combinatorics. She was the third woman to become a mathematics professor in Australia...

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Thomas Hobbes

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Papers Presented to the Royal Society Against Dr. Wallis. Together with Considerations on Dr. Wallis his Answer to them 1671. Rosetum Geometricum, sive...

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Savilian Professor of Astronomy

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provided for the astronomy professor. The first was in New College Lane, in central Oxford. John Wallis (geometry professor 1649–1703) rented a house there...

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List of Cambridge mathematicians

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fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1958–1961; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1990-1997 Charles Babbage, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics 1828-1839...

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Alison Marr

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Labelings of Directed Graphs, was supervised by Walter D. Wallis. She has been a member of the mathematics faculty at Southwestern University since 2007. She...

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List of mathematical constants

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(mathematics) Glossary of mathematical symbols List of mathematical symbols by subject List of numbers List of physical constants Particular values of...

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Chandra Wickramasinghe

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of Astrobiology. 9 (2): 119–129. Bibcode:2010IJAsB...9..119W. doi:10.1017/S1473550409990413. S2CID 13978227. Wickramasinghe, N.C.; Wallis, J.; Wallis...

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Joseph Kruskal

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developed the Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance. One of Joseph Kruskal's nephews is notable computer scientist and professor Clyde Kruskal. He was...

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Tom Whiteside

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British historian of mathematics. In 1954 Whiteside graduated from Bristol University with a B.A. having studied French, Latin, mathematics and philosophy...

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Jacob Bernoulli

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that many of the results that were to make up Ars Conjectandi were discovered. He was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Basel in...

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De Corpore

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were some changes, and a provocative appendix Six Lessons to the Professors of Mathematics was added. It has been claimed that the translation was vitiated...

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List of German scientists by century

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an Augustinian who was one of the first supporters of Martin Luther. Later in mathematics professor at the University of Jena Nicholas Kratzer (1487-1550)...

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Joni Wallis

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Joni Wallis is a cognitive neurophysiologist and Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Wallis received...

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Christoph Scriba

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the papers of John Wallis in Oxford in 1966, contributing to Studies on the Mathematics of John Wallis. Scriba then taught at the University of Kentucky...

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