White plaque № 49849

Penistone, Barnsley, England, United Kingdom

Nicholas Saunderson FRS (1682-1739). This area is dedicated to Nicholas Saunderson FRS, a blind English scientist and mathematician, after whom this estate is named. Nicholas was born locally in Thurlstone, and as a child he taught himself to read by using his fingers to trace engravings of tombston

es in St John the Baptist Church in Penistone. According to one historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes' Theorem. He worked as a Lucasian professor, a post which was

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