Nicholas Saunderson (1682 – 19 April 1739) was an English scientist and mathematician. According to one leading historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes theorem.
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“Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
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