Thomas Simpson
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Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Family name
- Simpson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Market Bosworth
- Place of death
- Market Bosworth
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Employer
- Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Simpson's rule
- Field of work
- mathematical analysis
- Image
- Thomas Simpson mathematician.jpg
- Residence
- Woolwich
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- date of death
- 1761-05-14
- date of birth
- 1710-08-20
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Thomas Simpson
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas Simpson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.