Nicholas Saunderson
English mathematician
Died when: 57 years 108 days (687 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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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