Richard Balam (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1653), was an English mathematician. Balam was the author of ''Algebra, or the Doctrine of composing, inferring, and resolving an Equation'' (1653). It is a possible source of developments in

John Wallis John Wallis (; la, Wallisius; ) was an English clergyman and mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. Between 1643 and 1689 he served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal ...

, ''Mathesis Universalis'' (1657), relating to geometric progressions treated as an

axiomatic theory In mathematics and logic, an axiomatic system is any Set (mathematics), set of axioms from which some or all axioms can be used in conjunction to logically derive theorems. A Theory (mathematical logic), theory is a consistent, relatively-self-co ...

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