Nicholas Saunderson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 285 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 20,1682 |
| Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
| Born | Thurlstone |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | April 19,1739 |
| Died | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Field | Mathematics |
| Job | Mathematician |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
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| ID | 1850325 |
Nicholas Saunderson Life story
Nicholas Saunderson LLD FRS 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.
