Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/34986
- Name (English)
- Nicholas Saunderson
- Short name
- Nicholas Saunderson
- Year of birth
- 1682
- Year of death
- 1739
- Short Description
- "Nicholas Saunderson LLD 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, a post also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
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