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Nicholas Saunderson

English mathematician (1682-1739) · Academics · Died at 57

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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Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1682 to 1739 · aged 57