An in-depth discussion of the life and work of Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and lay mathematician who planted the seed of modern Ba... » 

An in-depth discussion of the life and work of Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and lay mathematician who planted the seed of modern Bayesian statistics in 1763 with his posthumous An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances. «