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...s resolved by James Bernoulli in the "Memoirs of the Acad. of Sciences for 1703;" and other solutions have been given by some of the most celebrated mathem [[Category:1705 deaths]] ...

'''[[w:John Wallis|John Wallis]]''' (November 23, 1616 – October 28, 1703) was an English clergyman and [[w:Mathematics|mathematician]] who is given ...chair of geometry]] at Oxford, where he lived until his death on Oct. 28, 1703. It was there that all his mathematical works were published. Besides those ...