Thomas Simpson
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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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Born | 20 August 1710 |
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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