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ON August 20 occurred the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Simpson, who may be regarded as one of the last of the English school of mathematicians of the eighteenth century. Newton, Halley, the Gregories, Muston, Demoivre, Brook Taylor, Maclaurin, had all passed away before Simpson reached middle age, and the study of mathematics in England was entering upon that period of stagnation which left us without a single mathematician in any way comparable with the great writers on the Continent.
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SMITH, E. The Bicentenary of Thomas Simpson . Nature 84, 254–255 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084254a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084254a0