Thomas Weddle

Thomas Weddle (30 November 1817 Stamfordham, Northumberland – 4 December 1853 Bagshot) was a mathematician who introduced the Weddle surface. He was mathematics professor at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Weddle's Rule is a method of integration, the Newton–Cotes formula with N=6.

References

• Cassels, John William Scott; Flynn, E. V. (1996), Prolegomena to a middlebrow arithmetic of curves of genus 2, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, vol. 230, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-48370-4, MR 1406090
• Poggendorff, J. C. (1863), Biographisch-Literarisches Handwoerterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, vol. II, Leipzig: Leipzig J.A. Barth, p. 1277