Mathematical Work of John Wallis

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Early life and training
The beginnings of the Royal Society
Wallis's part in its early history
Appointment as Savilian Professor of Geometry
The treatise on the conic sections
The Arithmetica Infinitorum
The Mathesis Universalis
The Commercium Epistolicum (1657/8)
Controversy with Fermat and other members of the French
Mathematical School Appointment as Custos Archivorum
The quarrel with Doctor Holder
The Mechanica, sive Tractatus De Motu
The Hooke-Hevelius dispute
Publication of ancient manuscripts
The Treatise of Algebra
The dispute with Hobbes summarised Conclusion
Importance of Wallis's work to succeeding generations
Brief biographies of Wallis's contemporaries and immediate predecessors, who are mentioned in this work
Some observations on the development of notation during the seventeenth century, with specimens of notation then current
List of Wallis's mathematical works, including his contributions to the Transactions
Bibliography
Index
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