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British mathematician (1710-1761)

Person · Open Library

Born
1710
Died
1761
Works
27

Top works

  • A new treatise of fluxions
  • Trigonometry, plane and spherical
  • The ladies' diary, or, woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1760
  • The doctrine of annuities and reversions
  • A supplement to the doctrine of annuities and reversions

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1582-04-01
Active to
1628
classicalcomposerenglish composer

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Thomas Simpson (1582-1628) was an English composer. Simpson was born in Milton-next-Sittingbourne (now Milton Regis), Kent. There is no record of his first twenty-five years apart from his baptism (1st April). He seems to have been writing music by about 1602, when a surviving manuscript appears to have been written. Not long after this he travelled to Germany, as his name appears as a musician serving under the Elector Palatine at the Heidelberg Court. Simpson's wife was French, which might

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Born
20 August 1710, Sutton Cheney , Leicestershire
Died
14 May 1761 (1761-05-14) (aged 50), Market Bosworth , Leicestershire
Known for
Simpson's rule , Simpson–Weber triangle problem

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Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd mathematicks, 1740 Thomas Simpson FRS (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found 100 years earlier by Johannes Kepler, and in German it is called Keplersche Fassregel, or roughly "Kepler's Barrel Rule".

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