1710 - 1761
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Simpson has received more than 95,108 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Simpson is the 250th most popular mathematician (down from 219th in 2019), the 1,268th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,092nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Thomas Simpson ranks 250 out of 823. Before him are George Atwood, Farkas Bolyai, Israel Gelfand, Simon Newcomb, Pierre Varignon, and Nicolaus II Bernoulli. After him are Jabir ibn Aflah, William George Horner, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Michael Stifel, Andreas Osiander, and Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī.
1745 - 1807
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 244
1775 - 1856
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 245
1913 - 2009
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 246
1835 - 1909
HPI: 57.35
Rank: 247
1654 - 1722
HPI: 57.25
Rank: 248
1695 - 1726
HPI: 57.24
Rank: 249
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 250
1100 - 1150
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 251
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 252
1804 - 1889
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 253
1487 - 1567
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 254
1498 - 1552
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 255
746 - 806
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 256
Among people born in 1710, Thomas Simpson ranks 9. Before him are Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Muhammad bin Saud, Domenico Alberti, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, and Thomas Reid. After him are András Hadik, Mohammed ben Abdallah, Thomas Arne, Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle, Paolo Renier, and William Cullen. Among people deceased in 1761, Thomas Simpson ranks 8. Before him are Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria, Thomas Bayes, Samuel Richardson, Stephen Hales, Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans, and Tarabai. After him are Clemens August of Bavaria, Tokugawa Ieshige, Pierre Fauchard, John Dollond, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, and Giovanni Poleni.
1710 - 1771
HPI: 69.60
Rank: 3
1710 - 1784
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 4
1710 - 1765
HPI: 62.77
Rank: 5
1710 - 1746
HPI: 57.40
Rank: 6
1710 - 1770
HPI: 57.28
Rank: 7
1710 - 1796
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 8
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 9
1710 - 1790
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 10
1710 - 1790
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 11
1710 - 1778
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 12
1710 - 1751
HPI: 54.12
Rank: 13
1710 - 1789
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 14
1710 - 1790
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 15
1745 - 1761
HPI: 63.11
Rank: 2
1702 - 1761
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 3
1689 - 1761
HPI: 61.75
Rank: 4
1677 - 1761
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 5
1700 - 1761
HPI: 58.06
Rank: 6
1675 - 1761
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 7
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 8
1700 - 1761
HPI: 55.52
Rank: 9
1712 - 1761
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 10
1679 - 1761
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 11
1706 - 1761
HPI: 53.34
Rank: 12
1684 - 1761
HPI: 53.16
Rank: 13
1683 - 1761
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 14
Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Simpson ranks 1,268 out of 7,765. Before him are Alistair MacLean (1922), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), Thomas Reid (1710), George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon (1827), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), and William Stuart-Houston (1911). After him are Robert Fludd (1574), Dusty Springfield (1939), Joseph Paxton (1803), Michael Ventris (1922), Roger Williamson (1948), and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565).
1922 - 1987
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 1,262
1825 - 1895
HPI: 57.16
Rank: 1,263
1710 - 1796
HPI: 57.15
Rank: 1,264
1827 - 1909
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 1,265
1764 - 1820
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,266
1911 - 1987
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,267
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 1,268
1574 - 1637
HPI: 57.11
Rank: 1,269
1939 - 1999
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 1,270
1803 - 1865
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 1,271
1922 - 1956
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 1,272
1948 - 1973
HPI: 57.08
Rank: 1,273
1565 - 1601
HPI: 57.05
Rank: 1,274
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Simpson ranks 27. Before him are Michael Atiyah (1929), Henry Briggs (1561), John Horton Conway (1937), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), and George Atwood (1745). After him are William George Horner (1786), John Wilkins (1614), John Graunt (1620), Peter Barlow (1776), William Jones (1675), and Alan Baker (1939).
1929 - 2019
HPI: 60.20
Rank: 21
1561 - 1630
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 22
1937 - 2020
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 23
1195 - 1256
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 24
1512 - 1558
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 25
1745 - 1807
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 26
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 27
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 28
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 29
1620 - 1674
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 30
1776 - 1862
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 31
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 32
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 33