Re: [HM] Weddle

John Conway (conway@math.Princeton.edu)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:54:51 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Antreas P. Hatzipolakis wrote:

> Franz Lemmermeyer writes:
>
> >in two of Artin's letters to Hasse from 1930 Artin mentions
> >a publication of Weddle that he has no access to but that
> >Hasse apparently suggested he should read. The name Weddle
> >is not known to the Zentralblatt, and I could not find anything

He is most famous for "Weddle's Rule", which is much more
accurate than Simpson's Rule, but only slightly more complicated.
This was still fairly well-known when I was a student; but of course
the rise of computers has caused it to be forgotten now.

John Conway