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Nicholas Saunderson

English mathematician

Died when: 57 years 108 days (687 months)
Star Sign: Capricorn

 

Nicholas Saunderson

Nicholas Saunderson FRS (20 January 1682 – 19 April 1739) 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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