Nicholas Saunderson
Mathematician, Academic
1682 – 1739
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Who was Nicholas Saunderson?
Nicholas Saunderson FRS was an English scientist and mathematician. According to one leading historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1682
Thurlstone - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Employment
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
(1711 - 1739)
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
- Died
- Apr 19, 1739
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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