Thomas Weddle (30 November 1817 Stamfordham, Northumberland – 4 December 1853 Bagshot) was a mathematician who introduced the

Weddle surface In algebraic geometry, a Weddle surface, introduced by , is a quartic surface in 3-dimensional projective space, given by the locus of vertices of the family of cones passing through 6 points in general position. Weddle surfaces have 6 nodes an ...

. He was mathematics professor at the

Royal Military College, Sandhurst The Royal Military College (RMC), founded in 1801 and established in 1802 at Great Marlow and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, but moved in October 1812 to Sandhurst, Berkshire, was a British Army military academy for training infantry a ...

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

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* * 19th-century English mathematicians Academics of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1817 births 1853 deaths {{UK-mathematician-stub