1701 – Bayes – bio

Thomas Bayes was born in England in 1701 and was a mathematician who contributed to the field of probability a rule that is now known as “Bayes Theorem”. The theorem is a simple formula used for calculating conditional probabilities.

PRECURSOR:
1601 – Fermat
1623 – Pascal
1642 – Newton
1667 – de Moivre

CONCURRENT:

SUBSEQUENT:
1749 – Laplace
1912 – Turing
1916 – Good
1916 – Shannon

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