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Simpson was born in .

From 1743, he taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich .

Apparently, the method that became known as Simpson's rule was well known and used earlier by Bonaventura Cavalieri (a student of Galileo) in 1639, later rediscovered by James Gregory , and was only attributed to Simpson.


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  • ''Treatise of Fluxions'' (1737)

  • ''The Nature and Laws of Chance'' (1740)

  • ''The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions'' (1742)

  • ''Mathematical Dissertation on a Variety of Physical and Analytical Subjects'' (1743)

  • ''A Treatise of Algebra'' (1745)

  • ''Elements of Geometry'' (1747)

  • ''Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical'' (1748)

  • ''Select Exercises in Mathematics'' (1752)

  • ''Miscellaneous Tracts on Some Curious Subjects in Mechanics, Physical Astronomy and Special Mathematics'' (1757)



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