18-576: Simson may refer to: Simson (name) Simson (artist) Music Producer based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Simson (company) , a German company that produced firearms, automobiles, motorcycles, and mopeds Simson line in geometry, named for Robert Simson Simson Provincial Park in Canada KSV Simson Bremen , German football club See also [ edit ] Samson (disambiguation) Simpson (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
36-891: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Simson (name) For other uses, see Simson (disambiguation) . Simson is a surname , also a given name , and may refer to: Notable surnames [ edit ] Anna Simson (1835–1916), German women's rights activist Eduard von Simson (1810–1899), German jurist and politician Ernst von Simson (1876-1941), German lawyer, diplomat and entrepreneur Otto von Simson (1912–1993), German art historian Bernhard von Simson (1840–1915), German historian Geoffrey Spicer-Simson (1876–1947), British Commander Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944), British composer Ivan Simson (1890–1971), British Brigadier James Simson (1740–1770), medical academic at
54-584: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Robert Simson Robert Simson (14 October 1687 – 1 October 1768) was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow . The Simson line is named after him. Robert Simson was born on 14 October 1687, probably the eldest of the seventeen children, all male, of John Simson, a Glasgow merchant, and Agnes, daughter of Patrick Simpson, minister of Renfrew; only six of them reached adulthood. Simson matriculated at
72-512: The Data in 1762, was for long the standard text of Euclid in England. After Simson's death, restorations of Apollonius's treatise De section determinata and of Euclid's treatise De Porismatibus were printed for private circulation in 1776, at the expense of Earl Stanhope , in a volume with the title Roberti Simson opera quaedam reliqua . The volume contains also dissertations on Logarithms and on
90-616: The Conic Sections . In 1749, was published Apollonii Pergaei locorum planorum libri II. , a restoration of Apollonius 's lost treatise, founded on the lemmas given in the seventh book of Pappus 's Mathematical Collection . In 1756, appeared, both in Latin and in English, the first edition of his Euclid's Elements . This work, which contained only the first six and the eleventh and twelfth books, and to which, in its English version, he added
108-577: The University of Glasgow in 1701, intending to enter the Church. He followed the course in the faculty of arts (Latin, Greek, logic, natural philosophy) and then concentrated on studying theology and Semitic languages. Mathematics was not taught at the university, but by reading Sinclair's Tuyrocinia Mathematica in Novem Tractatus and then Euclid ’s Elements Simson soon became deeply interested in mathematics and especially geometry. His efforts impressed
126-624: The College of Glasgow, the (thirteenth) Earl of Eglinton and Winton, and the Earl Stanhope each donating £10; and John Carrick Moore – the first cousin twice removed of Robert Simson – giving £15. The memorial, designed by Frederick Thomas Pilkington , is “a large octagonal monument with carved Egyptian details, topped with a ball finial”. It is situated on a hilltop in West Kilbride cemetery. Simson's contributions to mathematical knowledge took
144-493: The Royal Society), Humphrey Ditton and, most importantly, Edmond Halley . Simson was admitted professor of mathematics at Glasgow, aged 23, on 20 November 1711, where his first task was to design a two-year course in mathematics, some of which he taught himself; his lectures included geometry, of course, and algebra, logarithms and optics. Among his students were Maclaurin , Matthew Stewart , and William Trail . He resigned
162-674: The University of St Andrews Kadri Simson (born 1977), Estonian politician Lovisa Simson (1746–1808), Swedish theater director Marianne Simson (1920–1992), German dancer Mecia Simson (born 1989), English actress Michelle Simson , Canadian politician Robert Simson (1687–1768), mathematician and geometer Ronald Simson , Scotland rugby player Sampson Simson (1780–1857), American philanthropist, "the father of Mount Sinai Hospital" Sergei Hohlov-Simson (born 1972), football player from Estonia Thomas Simson (1696–1764), medical academic at
180-604: The University of St Andrews William Simson (1800–1847), Scottish painter Notable given names [ edit ] First Simson Garfinkel , author, computer scientist, and Internaut Middle Jacob Anatoli (c. 1194 – 1256), Abba Mari ben Simson ben Anatoli, translator of Arabic texts to Hebrew John Simson Woolson (1840–1899), United States federal judge Thomas Simson Pratt (1797–1879), British General See also [ edit ] Simpson (name) Simonsen [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share
198-543: The form of critical editions and commentaries on the works of the ancient geometers . The first of his published writings is a paper in the Philosophical Transactions (1723, vol. xl. p. 330) on Euclid 's Porisms . Then followed Sectionum conicarum libri V. (Edinburgh, 1735), a second edition of which, with additions, appeared in 1750. The first three books of this treatise were translated into English and, several times, printed as The Elements of
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234-464: The post in 1761, and was succeeded by another of his pupils Rev Prof James Williamson FRSE (1725-1795). During his time at Glasgow Simson noted in 1753 that, as the Fibonacci numbers increased in magnitude, the ratio between adjacent numbers approached the golden ratio , whose value is As for the man himself, “Simson appears to have been tall and of good stature. In spite of his great scholarship he
252-407: The same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Simson, von Simson . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to
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288-461: The south wall, is placed to his memory a plain marble tablet, with a highly and justly complimentary inscription”. Simson's library, including some of his own works, was bequeathed to the university on his death. It consists of about 850 printed books, mainly early mathematical and astronomical texts. Subscriptions towards the erection of a monument to Dr Simson were collected in 1865, with the Senate of
306-603: The university Senate to such an extent that they offered him the chair of mathematics, to replace the recently-dismissed Sinclair. As he had had no formal training in the subject, Simson turned down the offer but agreed to take up the post a year later, during which time he would increase his knowledge of mathematics. After a failed attempt to go to Oxford, Simson spent his year in London at Christ's Hospital . During this time he made valuable contacts with several prominent mathematicians, including John Caswell , James Jurin (secretary of
324-530: Was a modest, unassuming man who was very cautious in promoting his own work. He enjoyed good company and presided over the weekly meetings of a dining club that he had instituted … He had a special interest in botany, in which he was an acknowledged expert”. Robert Simson did not marry. He died, aged 80, in his college residence at Glasgow on 1 October 1768, and was interred in the Blackfriars Burying Ground (now known as Ramshorn Cemetery ), where, in
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