Thomas Simpson
Sign in to saveBritish mathematician (1710-1761)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1710
- Died
- 1761
- Works
- 27
Top works
- A new treatise of fluxions
- Trigonometry, plane and spherical
- The ladies' diary, or, woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord 1760
- The doctrine of annuities and reversions
- A supplement to the doctrine of annuities and reversions
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1582-04-01
- Active to
- 1628
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,978
- Total plays
- 7,970
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Thomas Simpson (1582-1628) was an English composer. Simpson was born in Milton-next-Sittingbourne (now Milton Regis), Kent. There is no record of his first twenty-five years apart from his baptism (1st April). He seems to have been writing music by about 1602, when a surviving manuscript appears to have been written. Not long after this he travelled to Germany, as his name appears as a musician serving under the Elector Palatine at the Heidelberg Court. Simpson's wife was French, which might
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
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- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
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- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
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- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 44,323x
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Key facts
- Born
- 20 August 1710, Sutton Cheney , Leicestershire
- Died
- 14 May 1761 (1761-05-14) (aged 50), Market Bosworth , Leicestershire
- Known for
- Simpson's rule , Simpson–Weber triangle problem
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Encyclopedic overview
Essays on several curious and useful subjects, in speculative and mix'd mathematicks, 1740 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".
Biography
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