The man responsible for this strange and illuminating idea was neither a doctor nor a scientist by trade.
Born in Hertfordshire in 1702, Thomas Bayes was a clergyman and philosopher who served as the
minister at the chapel in Tunbridge Wells, near London. He published only two significant papers in his
lifetime—the first, a defense of God, and the second, a defense of Newton’s theory of calculus (it was a
sign of the times that in 1732, a clergyman found no cognitive dissonance between these two efforts). His
best-known work—on probability theory—was not published during his lifetime and was only
rediscovered decades after his death
Born in Hertfordshire in 1702, Thomas Bayes was a clergyman and philosopher who served as the
minister at the chapel in Tunbridge Wells, near London. He published only two significant papers in his
lifetime—the first, a defense of God, and the second, a defense of Newton’s theory of calculus (it was a
sign of the times that in 1732, a clergyman found no cognitive dissonance between these two efforts). His
best-known work—on probability theory—was not published during his lifetime and was only
rediscovered decades after his death
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