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Nicholas Saunderson

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English mathematician (1682-1739)

AcademicsLived 1682 to 1739 · aged 57
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Nicholas Saunderson was a blind English scientist and mathematician. According to one historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes' theorem. He worked as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a post also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking.

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Lived 1682 to 1739 · aged 57
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