Nicholas Saunderson
English mathematician and scientist (1682–1739) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the English landowner and politician, see Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton.
Nicholas Saunderson FRS (20 January 1682 – 19 April 1739) was a blind[1] English scientist and mathematician. According to one historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes' theorem.[2] 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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Nicholas Saunderson | |
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Born | 20 January 1682 Thurlstone, Yorkshire, England |
Died | 19 April 1739(1739-04-19) (aged 57) Cambridge, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Penistone Grammar School University of Cambridge |
Spouse | Abigail Dickons |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1718) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
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