Thomas Simpson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetThomas Simpson
British mathematician
Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1710
Place of Birth: Market Bosworth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 14-May-1761
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About 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.
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