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Thomas Bayes

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Noun1.Thomas Bayes - English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)
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00 Paperback Q175 Mathematician and divine Thomas Bayes, in his memoir--published posthumously in 1763--set out a process for evaluating hypotheses based on the idea that valid inductive reasoning is reasoning according to the formal principles of probability.
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Typically it is based on a pattern matching technology and probability theorems devised by Cambridge mathematician Thomas Bayes.
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