Editing Thomas Simpson (section)

{{Short description|British mathematician and inventor}}
{{other people|Thomas Simpson}}
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| birth_date         = 20 August 1710
| birth_place        = [[Sutton Cheney]], [[Leicestershire]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1761|5|14|1710|8|20}}
| death_place        = [[Market Bosworth]], Leicestershire
| known_for          = [[Simpson's rule]]<br>[[Weber_problem#Simpson’s_geometrical_solution_of_the_Weber_triangle_problem|Simpson–Weber triangle problem]]
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[[File:Simpson, Thomas – Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd mathematicks, 1740 – BEIC 768468.jpg|thumb|''Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd mathematicks'', 1740]]
'''Thomas Simpson''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (20 August 1710 – 14 May 1761) was a British mathematician and inventor known for the [[Eponym|eponymous]] [[Simpson's rule]] to approximate [[Definite Integrals|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 [[:de:Keplersche Fassregel|Keplersche Fassregel]], or roughly "Kepler's Barrel Rule".