Rehuel Lobatto

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Rehuel Lobatto (June 6, 1797 – February 9, 1866) was a Dutch mathematician. Lobatto was born in Amsterdam to a Portuguese Marrano 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 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.

External links

Rehuel Lobatto at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Name	Lobatto, Rehuel
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Short description	Dutch mathematician
Date of birth	June 6, 1797
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Date of death	February 9, 1866
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