Life And Accomplishments Of John Wallis
Life and Accomplishments of John Wallis
John Wallis was born on the year of 1616. His father was also named John Wallis and was a minister in Ashford. John Wallis 1st met Joanna Chapman and married her in 1612 to be his second wife. They had five children together and John Wallis being third oldest.
In 1612 when John was just six years old his father died and john was left to be raised by his mother. He first attended school in Ashford but his mother moved them to Tenterden, Kent because a plague broke out in Ashford. In 1625 at the age of thirteen John wrote an autobiography called Wallis Comments. In this book he explain that he is ready and capable of attending a university at his age. Later John did go to college. He attended Emmanuel College Cambridge. In college he studied philosophy, Languages, grammer, and other non-math-related classes. He first was introduced to math when one Christmas his brother taught him some simple rules in math. John still pursued his studies in colleges and for fun he would do math problems. To him it was
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