Rehuel Lobatto, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Rehuel Lobatto

Dutch mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1797

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1866

Profession: mathematician, university teacher, statistician

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Rehuel Lobatto (June 6, 1797 – February 9, 1866) was a Dutch mathematician.
Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese Jewish family.
As a schoolboy Lobatto already displayed remarkable talent for mathematics.
He studied mathematics under Adolphe Quetelet coediting "Correspondance Mathématique et Physique." Working for the Dutch government he became secretary of a statistical commission in 1831. In 1836 he became member of the Royal Institute, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1842 he became a teacher at the Polytechnical School of Delft. The Gauss-Lobatto quadrature method is named after him.