Richard Balam

Richard Balam, active in 1653, was an English mathematician known for a single work, Algebra, or the Doctrine of composing, inferring, and resolving an Equation, published in 1653. The English Wikipedia article, which draws on the Dictionary of National Biography entry for him, gives no birth or death dates, only the floruit year of 1653. It notes that his book is a possible source for developments in John Wallis, Mathesis Universalis of 1657, which treated geometric progressions as an axiomatic theory. That connection is described as possible rather than established, and the source says nothing further about his life, education or other writings, so this entry makes no further claims about him.