The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of Thomas Bayes, the English Presbyterian minister and mathematician whose posthumously published essay founded what is now called Bayes' theorem.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bayes/
Source Typeacademic biography
Reliability Tier2
A biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, a university-maintained academic history project (University of St Andrews); used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against independent citations of the essay's 1763 publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Sources
Thomas Bayes (MacTutor)
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