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Rehuel Lobatto (6 June 1797 – 9 February 1866 ) was a Dutch mathematician.
The Gauss-Lobatto quadrature method is named after him, as are his variants on the Runge–Kutta methods for solving ODEs, and the Lobatto polynomials.
He was the author of a great number of articles in scientific periodicals, as well as various schoolbooks.
Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a
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'' The Jewish Encyclopedia''. He studied mathematics under
"Correspondance Mathématique et Physique"
. Working for the Dutch government - initially for the Ministry of the Interior - he became secretary of a statistical commission in 1831. From 1826 till 1849 he was editor of the '' "Jaarboekje van Lobatto"'', as those editions of the official annual of statistics came to be known. In 1841 he was appointed by Minister Rochussen as a member of a commission for the conversion of the public debt. In 1842 he was appointed Professor A "Hoogleraar"; see
Rehuel Lobatto (6 June 1797 – 9 February 1866 ) was a Dutch mathematician.
The Gauss-Lobatto quadrature method is named after him, as are his variants on the Runge–Kutta methods for solving ODEs, and the Lobatto polynomials.
He was the author of a great number of articles in scientific periodicals, as well as various schoolbooks.
Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese Jewish
Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the i ...
family.
As a schoolboy Lobatto already displayed remarkable talent for mathematics.
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'' The Jewish Encyclopedia''. He studied mathematics under
Jean Henri van Swinden
Jean Henri van Swinden (The Hague, 8 June 1746 – Amsterdam, 9 March 1823) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist who taught in Franeker and Amsterdam.
Biography
His parents were the lawyer Phillippe van Swinden and Marie Anne Tollosan. H ...
at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, earning his BA in 1812; and then with Adolphe Quetelet (coediting a volume o"Correspondance Mathématique et Physique"
. Working for the Dutch government - initially for the Ministry of the Interior - he became secretary of a statistical commission in 1831. From 1826 till 1849 he was editor of the '' "Jaarboekje van Lobatto"'', as those editions of the official annual of statistics came to be known. In 1841 he was appointed by Minister Rochussen as a member of a commission for the conversion of the public debt. In 1842 he was appointed Professor A "Hoogleraar"; see
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. of Higher Mathematics at the Polytechnical School of Delft, remaining there until his final years.
In 1836 he became member of the Royal Institute, predecessor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
The Order of the Netherlands Lion was conferred upon him; he received his Doctoral degree "honoris causa" from Groningen University.
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* 1797 births 1866 deaths 19th-century Dutch mathematicians Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology Dutch statisticians Dutch Sephardi Jews Dutch people of Portuguese-Jewish descent Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Scientists from Amsterdam {{Statistician-stub