De sectionibus conicis, nova methodo expositis, tractatus

John Wallis (1616-1703) , an English mathematician has been given partial credit for the introduction of the symbol of infinity. In general, Wallis has been the historical forerunner of the seventeenth-century shift from Euclid's dominated geometrical to algebraic thinking. Waillis defined the symbol for intinity as ∞ (p. 4). Download at: Archive

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