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gptkb:person
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gptkbp:almaMater
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gptkb:Emmanuel_College,_Cambridge
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gptkbp:awarded
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gptkb:order_of_merit
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gptkbp:birthDate
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1616-11-23
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gptkbp:birthPlace
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gptkb:Ashford,_Kent,_England
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:John_Wallis_Jr.
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1703-10-28
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gptkbp:deathPlace
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gptkb:Oxford,_England
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gptkbp:era
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gptkb:Scientific_Revolution
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gptkbp:field
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gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:theology
cryptography
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gptkbp:honorificPrefix
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Sir
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Sir John Wallis
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
gptkb:Isaac_Newton
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:René_Descartes
gptkb:William_Oughtred
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gptkbp:knownFor
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work on geometry
contributions to calculus
work on algebra
introduction of the infinity symbol (∞)
deciphering codes
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gptkbp:memberOf
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gptkb:Royal_Society
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gptkbp:nationality
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English
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gptkbp:notableStudent
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gptkb:William_Lloyd
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:priest
crypt
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gptkbp:positionHeld
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gptkb:Savilian_Professor_of_Geometry_at_Oxford
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gptkbp:publishedWork
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gptkb:Treatise_on_Algebra
gptkb:Arithmetica_Infinitorum
gptkb:Mechanica_sive_De_Motu
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gptkbp:religion
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gptkb:Anglicanism
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gptkbp:restingPlace
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gptkb:St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Oxford
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gptkbp:signature
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John_Wallis_signature.svg
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Susanna_Glyde
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gptkb:Sir_Murray_Coutts-Trotter
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