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Thomas Simpson

1710 - 1761

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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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Simpson is the 384th most popular mathematician (down from 262nd in 2019), the 1,906th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,256th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Thomas Simpson ranks 384 out of 1,004. Before him are Raymond Smullyan, Guillaume Postel, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Thomas Heath, Marshall Harvey Stone, and Louis Nirenberg. After him are Ivan Vinogradov, Ostilio Ricci, Lothar Collatz, Igor Shafarevich, Richard Courant, and Rudolf Lipschitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1710, Thomas Simpson ranks 13. Before him are András Hadik, Domenico Alberti, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, and Carl Alexander Clerck. After him are William Cullen, James Ferguson, Abraham Trembley, Johann II Bernoulli, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, and Paolo Renier. Among people deceased in 1761, Thomas Simpson ranks 13. Before him are Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, Tokugawa Ieshige, Balaji Baji Rao, Clemens August of Bavaria, Pierre Fauchard, and Tarabai. After him are John Dollond, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Francesco Feo, Giovanni Poleni, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, and Johann Georg Pinsel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Simpson ranks 1,906 out of 8,785. Before him are Peter Taylor (1928), Gordon Ramsay (1966), John Bull (1562), Ian Kershaw (1943), Dorothy Round (1909), and Jack Hawkins (1910). After him are Louis Harold Gray (1905), David Bailey (1938), Richard Adams (1920), Martin Amis (1949), Charles Macintosh (1766), and Peter Vaughan (1923).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Simpson ranks 41. Before him are John Wilkins (1614), Edward Waring (1736), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), George Peacock (1791), John Graunt (1620), and Thomas Heath (1861). After him are William George Horner (1786), Peter Barlow (1776), Edmund Gunter (1581), Roger Cotes (1682), Thomas Henderson (1798), and William Jones (1675).

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