He died in Market Bosworth, and was laid to rest in Sutton Cheney. A plaque inside the church commemorates him.

Early work

Simpson's treatise entitled The Nature and Laws of Chance and The Doctrine of Annuities and Reversions were based on the work of De Moivre and were attempts at making the same material more brief and understandable. Simpson stated this clearly in The Nature and Laws of Chance, referring to Abraham De Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances:

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