Thomas Simpson
British mathematician (1710-1761) · Academics · Died at 50
Thomas Simpson FRS was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals.
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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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Academics
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Academic
Status
Deceased
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Lived 1710 to 1761 · aged 50
