For the English landowner and politician, see Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton.
Nicholas Saunderson
FRS
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
Nicholas SaundersonFRS (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.
^H F Baker, Nicholas Saunderson or Sanderson, in Dictionary of National Biography Vol L (London, 1897), 332-333.
^Stephen M. Stigler, Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?, The American Statistician, Vol. 37, No. 4, Part 1 (November 1983), pp. 290–296; collected in Stephen M. Stigler (1999), Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods, pp. 291–301, Harvard University Press ISBN 978-0-674-83601-3 (hbk) ISBN 978-0-674-00979-0 (pbk).
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