1 Jan 1655 Jahr - John Wallis
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John Wallis writes Arithmetica Infinitorum, in which he develops the standard notation for powers, extending them from positive integers to rational numbers. He is credited with the symbol ∞for infinity and 1/∞for infinitesimal. In his Opera Mathematica, he introduces the term “continued fraction.”
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