article_title birth_date death_date
thomas simpson
 20 august 1710 14 may 1761
thomas simpson

thomas simpson frs -lrb- 20 august 1710 -- 14 may 1761 -rrb- was a british mathematician , inventor and eponym of 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 is the so-called keplersche fassregel .
