Nicholas Saunderson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nicholas Saunderson

English mathematician

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1682

Place of Birth: Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1739

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Nicholas Saunderson (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, a post also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking.