Epoch: 18th Century
Description
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Chronology
1763
- Posthumous discovery of Bayes' theorem
- In a letter of Richard Price to John Canton he communicates his discovery of an unpublished essay of
already deceased Bayes, titled "An Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances",
which he finds of "great merit, and well deserves to be preserved." The discovered essay contains
a theorem named after the death of Bayes the Bayes' theorem.
Table of Contents
- Person: Paman, Roger
- Person: Bernoulli (5), Daniel
- Person: Bliss, Nathaniel
- Person: Braikenridge, William
- Person: Stone, Edmund
- Person: Celsius, Anders
- Person: Emerson, William
- Person: Condamine, Charles Marie de La
- Person: Bayes, Thomas
- Person: Calandrini, Jean-Louis
- Person: Deparcieux, Antoine
- Person: Hallerstein, Augustin
- Person: Castillon, Johann Francesco Melchiore Salvemini
- Person: Cramer, Gabriel
- Person: Bertins, Alexis Fontaine des
- Person: Von Segner, Johann Andreas
- Person: Du Châtelet, Émilie
- Person: Franklin, Benjamin
- Person: Robins, Benjamin
- Person: De Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte
- Person: Euler, Leonhard
- Person: Riccati (2), Vincenzo
- Person: Riccati (3), Giordano
- Person: Bernoulli (6), Johann
- Person: Fuller, Thomas
- Person: Simpson, Thomas
- Person: Bassi, Laura Maria Catarina
- Person: Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe
- Person: Jacquier, François
- Person: König, Samuel
- Person: Clairaut, Alexis Claude
- Person: De Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis
- Person: Juan, Jorge
- Person: De Thury, César-François Cassini
- Person: Wilson, Alexander
- Person: Fagnano (2), Giovanni
- Person: D'Alembert, Jean
- Person: Stewart, Matthew
- Person: Agnesi, Maria Gaëtana
- Person: Hatvani, István
- Person: Kästner, Abraham
- Person: Landen, John
- Person: Casamayor, María Andresa
- Person: Lepaute, Nicole-Reine Etable de Labrière
- Person: Mayer, Tobias
- Person: Price, Richard
- Person: Aepinus, Franz Maria Ulrich Theodosius
- Person: D'Arcy, Patrick
- Person: Montucla, Jean Étienne
- Person: Hutton, James
- Person: Frisi, Paolo
- Person: Lambert, Johann Heinrich
- Person: De Bougainville, Louis Antoine
- Person: Bézout, Étienne
- Person: Bossut, Charles
- Person: Banneker, Benjamin
- Person: Malfatti, Gian Francesco
- Person: Maseres, Francis
- Person: Ajima, Chokuyen Naonobu
- Person: Karsten, Wenceslaus Johann Gustav
- Person: De Lalande, Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais
- Person: Maskelyne, Nevil
- Person: Mutis, José
- Person: Rittenhouse, David
- Person: De Borda, Jean Charles
- Person: Du Séjour, Achille Pierre Dionis
- Person: Da Rocha, Monteiro
- Person: Lorgna, Antonio Maria
- Person: Ramsden, Jesse
- Person: Vandermonde, Alexandre-Théophile
- Person: Bring, Erland Samuel
- Person: De Coulomb, Charles Augustin
- Person: Lagrange, Joseph-Louis
- Person: Tetens, Johannes Nikolaus
- Person: Waring, Edward
- Person: Hutton (2), Charles
- Person: Vilant, Nicolas
- Person: Herschel, William
- Person: Klügel, Georg
- Person: Giannini, Pietro
- Person: Lexell, Anders Johan
- Person: Hindenburg, Carl Friedrich
- Person: Wilson (2), John
- Person: De Condorcet, Marquis
- Person: Bernoulli (7), Johann
- Person: Da Cunha, José Anastácio
- Person: Méchain, Pierre
- Person: Atwood, George
- Person: Buée, Adrien Quentin
- Person: Wessel, Caspar
- Person: Monge, Gaspard
- Person: Piazzi, Giuseppe
- Person: Trail, William
- Person: Yasuaki, Aida
- Person: Cassini (3), Dominique
- Person: Playfair, John
- Person: De Tinseau, D'Amondans Charles
- Person: Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- Person: Hellins, John
- Person: Laplace, Pierre-Simon
- Person: Vince, Samuel
- Person: Glenie, James
- Person: Herschel (2), Caroline
- Person: Lhuilier, Simon Antoine Jean
- Person: Mascheroni, Lorenzo
- Person: Morgan, William
- Person: Bonnycastle, John
- Person: Legendre, Adrien-Marie
- Person: Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguérite
- Person: Fergola, Nicola
- Person: Stewart (2), Dugald
- Person: Troughton, Edward
- Person: Canard, Nicolas-François
- Person: Von Vega, Georg Freiherr
- Person: De Prony, Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche
- Person: Fuss, Nicolaus
- Person: Parseval, Marc-Antoine
- Person: Gerstner, František Josef
- Person: West, John
- Person: Arbogast, Louis François Antoine
- Person: Bernoulli (8), Jacob
- Person: Paoli, Pietro
- Person: Kramp, Christian
- Person: De Boislaurent, Ferdinand François Désiré Budan
- Person: Yuan, Ruan
- Person: Girard (2), Pierre-Simon
- Person: Ivory, James
- Person: Lacroix, Sylvestre François
- Person: Osipovsky, Timofei Fedorovic
- Person: Pfaff, Johann Friedrich
- Person: Ruffini, Paolo
- Person: Brinkley, John Mortimer
- Person: Farey, John
- Person: Leslie, John
- Person: Bouvard, Alexis
- Person: Argand, Jean Robert
- Person: Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph
- Person: Français, François
- Person: Harlay, Marie-Jeanne Amélie
- Person: Rui, Li
- Person: Marescotti, Pietro Abbati
- Person: Servois, François Joseph
- Person: Wallace, William
- Person: Bartels, Johann Christian Martin
- Person: Giordano, Annibale
- Person: Hachette, Jean Nicolas Pierre
- Person: Puissant, Louis
- Person: Gergonne, Joseph Diaz
- Person: Reynaud, Antoine-André-Louis
- Person: Haldane, Robert
- Person: Lloyd, Bartholomew
- Person: Bowditch, Nathaniel
- Person: Burckhardt, Johann Karl
- Person: Francoeur, Louis Benjamin
- Person: Woodhouse, Robert
- Person: Young, Thomas
- Person: Biot, Jean Baptiste
- Person: Gregory (4), Olinthus
- Person: Mollweide, Karl Brandan
- Person: Adrain, Robert
- Person: Ampère, André-Marie
- Person: Bolyai, Farkas
- Person: Français (2), Jacques
- Person: Malus, Étienne Louis
- Person: Barlow, Peter
- Person: Germain, Marie-Sophie
- Person: Brisson, Barnabé
- Person: Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich
- Person: Hecht, Daniel Friedrich
- Person: Poinsot, Louis
- Person: Spence, William
- Person: De Wronski, Josef-Maria Hoëné
- Person: Gompertz, Benjamin
- Person: Crelle August Leopold
- Person: Somerville, Mary Fairfax Greig
- Person: Bidone, Giorgio
- Person: Bolzano, Bernard Placidus Johann Nepomuk
- Person: Plana, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo
- Person: Poisson, Siméon Denis
- Person: Flauti, Vincenzo
- Person: Brianchon, Charles Julien
- Person: Mathieu, Claude-Louis
- Person: Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Person: Dupin, Pierre Charles François
- Person: Navier, Claude Louis Marie Henri
- Person: Arago, Dominique François Jean
- Person: Binet, Jacques Philippe Marie
- Person: Bland, Miles
- Person: Horner, William George
- Person: Nicollet, Jean-Nicolas
- Person: Thomson, James
- Person: Walsh, John
- Person: Cruickshank, John
- Person: De Fourcy, Louis Lefébure
- Person: Davies, Griffith
- Person: Dirksen, Enno Heeren
- Person: Fallows, Fearon
- Person: Fresnel, Augustin Jean
- Person: Hamilton, William
- Person: Poncelet, Jean Victor
- Person: Bordoni, Antonio Maria
- Person: Cauchy, Augustin Louis
- Person: Ohm, Georg Simon
- Person: Bélanger, Jean-Baptiste
- Person: Champollion, Jean-François
- Person: Möbius, August
- Person: Strong, Theodore
- Person: Terrot, Charles Hughes
- Person: Babbage, Charles
- Person: Encke, Johann Franz
- Person: Faraday, Michael
- Person: Lebesgue, Victor Amédée
- Person: Mourey, C. V.
- Person: Peacock, George
- Person: Petit (2), Aléxis Thérèse
- Person: Savart, Félix
- Person: De Coriolis, Gaspard Gustave
- Person: Herschel (3), Caroline Lucretia
- Person: Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich
- Person: Ohm (2), Martin
- Person: Chasles, Michel
- Person: Green, George
- Person: Hopkins, William
- Person: Kulik, Jakob Philipp
- Person: Olivier, Théodore
- Person: Dandelin, Germinal Pierre
- Person: Taurinus, Franz Adolph
- Person: Whewell, William
- Person: Carlyle, Thomas
- Person: Holmboe, Bernt Michael
- Person: Lamé, Gabriel
- Person: Léger, Émile
- Person: Morin (2), Arthur Jules
- Person: Richard, Louis
- Person: Rodrigues, Benjamin Olinde
- Person: Whish, Charles Matthew
- Person: Bienaymé, Jules
- Person: Brashman, Nikolai Dmetrievich
- Person: Carnot (2), Sadi
- Person: Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
- Person: Steiner, Jakob
- Person: Duhamel, Jean Marie Constant
- Person: Finck, Pierre-Joseph-Étienne
- Person: Saint-Venant, Jean Claude
- Person: Savary, Felix
- Person: Bobillier, Étienne E
- Person: Gudermann, Christoph
- Person: Neumann, Franz
- Person: Scherk, Heinrich Ferdinand
- Person: Von Staudt, Karl Georg Christian
- Person: Clapeyron, Benoit Paul Émile
- Person: Gräffe, Karl
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References
Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:
- O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
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