Biography:Rehuel Lobatto
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Short description: Dutch mathematician
Rehuel Lobatto (June 6, 1797 – February 9, 1866) was a Dutch mathematician. Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese Jewish family. As a schoolboy Lobatto already displayed remarkable talent for mathematics.[1] He studied mathematics under Adolphe Quetelet coediting "Correspondance Mathématique et Physique." Working for the Dutch government he became secretary of a statistical commission in 1831.[2] In 1836 he became member of the Royal Institute, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[3] In 1842 he became a teacher at the Polytechnical School of Delft.
The Gauss-Lobatto quadrature method is named after him.
References
- ↑ Entry in jewishencyclopedia
- ↑ Butter, Irene Hasenberg (1970-07-31). Academic economics in Holland 1800–1870. Springer. ISBN 90-247-0518-5.
- ↑ "Rehuel Lobatto (1797 - 1866)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001640. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
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