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Thomas Simpson

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…

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

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Thomas Simpson → Convergence, Edmund, Encyclopædia Britannica, John, MacTutor History, Mathematics Archive, Maxima, Minima, O'Connor, Robertson, Simpson, St Andrews, Thomas, University, Vol, Work
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