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Thomas Simpson (
August 20,
1710 –
May 14,
1761) was a
British mathematician,
inventor and
eponym of
Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. However, this rule was also found 200 years earlier from
Johannes Kepler, in the so-called .
Simpson was born in
Market Bosworth,
Leicestershire. The son of a weaver, Simpson taught himself mathematics, then turned to
astrology. After an unfortunate "devil-raising", he and his wife had to flee to
Derby (External Link
). They later moved to
London.
From 1743, he taught mathematics at the
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
Apparently, the method that became known as Simpson's rule was well known and used earlier by
Bonaventura Cavalieri (a student of Galileo) in 1639, later rediscovered by
James Gregory, and was only attributed to Simpson.
Works
- Treatise of Fluxions (1737)
- The Nature and Laws of Chance (1740)
- The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions (1742)
- Mathematical Dissertation on a Variety of Physical and Analytical Subjects (1743)
- A Treatise of Algebra (1745)
- Elements of Geometry (1747)
- Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical (1748)
- Select Exercises in Mathematics (1752)
- Miscellaneous Tracts on Some Curious Subjects in Mechanics, Physical Astronomy and Speculative Mathematics (1757)
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