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Simpson was born in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. He taught himself mathematics, then turned to astrology. After an unfortunate "devil-raising", he and his wife had to flee to Derby [1]. They later moved to London.

From 1743, he taught mathematics at the Royal Military Academy in WoolwichSee also Woolwich, Ontario, Canada and Woolwich, Maine, United States of America Woolwich (pronounced 'Woolitch') is a town in south-east London, England in the London Borough of Greenwich, on the south side of the River Thames, though the tiny exclave of.

Apparently, the method that became known as Simpson's rule was well known and used earlier (published by James GregoryJames Gregory (November 1638 October 1675), was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He was born at Drumoak near Aberdeen, and died at Edinburgh. He was successively professor at St. Andrews and Edinburgh. In 1660 he published his Optica Promota in wh), and was only attributed to Simpson.

1 Works

• 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)

2 External links

• 1911 encyclopedia entry