Thomas Simpson
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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
Discography
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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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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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- date of death
- 1761-05-14
- date of birth
- 1710-08-20
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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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