Thomas Bayes

Thomas Bayes (about 1701 to 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister, known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name. He enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1719 to study logic and theology, assisted his father at a London chapel, and was minister of the Mount Sion Chapel in Tunbridge Wells until 1752. In 1736 he published a defence of Isaac Newton's calculus against the objections of Bishop Berkeley, and in 1742 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He never published his most famous result: his notes on inverse probability were edited by Richard Price and read to the Royal Society in 1763. This entry is the computing facet of a figure the atlas also holds in mathematics.