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- John Wallis (1616-1703)
- Born in England.
- He defined conic sections analytically.
- He systematized and extended the methods of analysis of Descartes and Cavalieri.
- He provided the solution of the problems on the cycloid that had been proposed by Pascal.
- Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)
- Born in Germany.
- He developed a method for treating all elliptic functions in a symmetrical manner.
- He constructed a theory of uniform analytic functions.
