Nicholas Saunderson

Nicholas Saunderson FRS (20 Januari 1682 – 19 Aprili 1739) alikuwa mwanasayansi na mwanahisabati wa Uingereza ambaye alikuwa haoni.^[1]

Kwa mujibu wa mwanahistoria mmoja wa takwimu, huenda alikuwa miongoni mwa watu wa kwanza kugundua nadharia ya Bayes.^[2]

Alifanya kazi kama Lucasian Professor of Mathematics katika Chuo Kikuu cha Cambridge, nafasi ambayo pia iliwahi kushikiliwa na Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage na Stephen Hawking.

Marejeo

↑ H. F. Baker, Nicholas Saunderson or Sanderson, in Dictionary of National Biography Vol L (London, 1897), pp. 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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[1] H. F. Baker, Nicholas Saunderson or Sanderson, in Dictionary of National Biography Vol L (London, 1897), pp. 332–333.

[2] 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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