• Thumbnail for Nicholas Saunderson
    Nicholas Saunderson FRS (20 January 1682 – 19 April 1739) was a blind English scientist and mathematician. According to one historian of statistics, he...
    13 KB (1,485 words) - 22:21, 22 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Earl Castleton
    in 1627) Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton (1561–1630) Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton (d. 1640) Nicholas Saunderson, 3rd Viscount...
    4 KB (288 words) - 09:30, 2 June 2023
  • Saunderson is a surname. It may refer to: Alexander Saunderson (1783–1857), Irish Whig politician, Francis's son. Ann Saunderson (born 1967), British dance/soul...
    1 KB (207 words) - 17:17, 31 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Penistone Grammar School
    amongst the oldest extant schools in England, with alumni including Nicholas Saunderson, the probable inventor of Bayes theorem, in the 18th century. At...
    26 KB (1,995 words) - 21:19, 3 October 2024
  • Bayesian argument to conclude that Bayes' theorem was discovered by Nicholas Saunderson, a blind English mathematician, some time before Bayes; that interpretation...
    52 KB (7,449 words) - 22:22, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sandbeck Park
    to Richard Turke of London, who sold it to Robert Saunderson in 1552. His son Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton either built a new house or...
    11 KB (1,120 words) - 11:30, 29 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Elements of Algebra
    recognize today (another early book being Elements of Algebra by Nicholas Saunderson, published in 1740), and is one of Euler's few writings, along with...
    5 KB (459 words) - 17:01, 27 March 2024
  • physics 33 3 1702 William Whiston (1667–1752) Mathematics 9 4 1711 Nicholas Saunderson (1682–1739) Mathematics 28 5 1739 John Colson (1680–1760) Mathematics...
    9 KB (508 words) - 08:44, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bernard Morin
    Strasbourg. Morin's surface. Blind mathematicians: Leonhard Euler, Nicholas Saunderson, Lev Pontryagin, Louis Antoine, Zachary Battles "Décès de Bernard...
    5 KB (356 words) - 08:24, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Euclidean algorithm
    extended Euclidean algorithm was published by the English mathematician Nicholas Saunderson, who attributed it to Roger Cotes as a method for computing continued...
    124 KB (15,171 words) - 21:21, 16 November 2024
  • Lyons, English mathematician and botanist (died 1775) April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (born 1682) April 27 – Nicolas...
    3 KB (219 words) - 16:47, 16 June 2024
  • brother of Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton, and a nephew of Thomas Grantham. Born after 1561, he was the second son of Robert Saunderson of Saxby...
    1 KB (128 words) - 18:51, 4 November 2022
  • his hero's achievements to those of real life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough...
    8 KB (1,079 words) - 20:46, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penistone
    founded in 1392. Notable former pupils include the blind mathematician Nicholas Saunderson, and Anne Campbell, who served as MP for Cambridge until May 2005...
    23 KB (2,552 words) - 13:37, 17 November 2024
  • Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton (1562–1631) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1593 and 1625. Saunderson...
    4 KB (288 words) - 08:21, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of University of Cambridge people
    John's) Nicholas Saunderson (Christ's) Richard R. Schrock (unknown), Nobel Prize winner Dennis William Sciama (Trinity), physicist Sir Nicholas Shackleton...
    140 KB (14,733 words) - 20:44, 7 November 2024
  • the person Locke referred to was the mathematician and scientist Nicholas Saunderson, who held the Lucasian professor chair at Cambridge University, and...
    14 KB (1,721 words) - 10:40, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boxworth
    containing a clock and one bell: in the church is a monument to Nicholas Saunderson LLD, FRS, the celebrated blind professor of mathematics at the University...
    7 KB (748 words) - 10:08, 25 October 2024
  • 1626) 1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657) 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682) 1768 – Canaletto, Italian...
    52 KB (4,975 words) - 19:37, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1739
    – Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1705) April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682) May 10 – Cosmas Damian...
    9 KB (1,085 words) - 23:17, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Skegness
    Much of the land in and around Skegness came into the hands of Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton, who enclosed 400 acres (160 hectares) of...
    200 KB (19,398 words) - 15:56, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Denis Diderot
    blind" under discussion. In the essay, blind English mathematician Nicholas Saunderson argues that, since knowledge derives from the senses, mathematics...
    72 KB (8,722 words) - 05:00, 20 November 2024
  • minister Timothy Jollie, who educated students including John Bowes, Nicholas Saunderson and Thomas Secker. Secker, later Archbishop of Canterbury, was frustrated...
    8 KB (800 words) - 19:45, 21 May 2024
  • James Saunderson, 1st Earl Castleton (c. 1667, Sandbeck, Yorkshire – 23 May 1723) was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the English and...
    6 KB (444 words) - 11:48, 24 July 2024
  • 1637 1670 Viscount Castleton (1627) Nicholas Saunderson, 1st Viscount Castleton 1627 1630 Died Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton 1630 1640 Viscount...
    51 KB (56 words) - 03:13, 16 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Slate and stylus
    individuals' personal solutions. One notable approach was that of Nicholas Saunderson (Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge) blind nearly from...
    10 KB (1,091 words) - 22:52, 8 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency)
    Moryson 1588–9 Thomas Moryson Tristram Tyrwhitt 1593 William Barne Nicholas Saunderson 1597 (Sep) Thomas Hatcliffe Thomas Ellis 1601 (Oct) Thomas Clinton...
    102 KB (2,363 words) - 22:01, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ernest Bramah
    his hero's achievements to those of real-life blind people such as Nicholas Saunderson, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, Blind Jack of Knaresborough...
    23 KB (3,319 words) - 20:47, 19 November 2024
  • and made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics. Nicholas Saunderson – English mathematician who went blind at the age of twelve months...
    51 KB (4,717 words) - 07:43, 17 November 2024
  • cases, the problem goes back to Johann van Waveren Hudde (1659). Nicholas Saunderson (1740) noted that the determination of the quadratic factors of a...
    31 KB (3,565 words) - 17:20, 17 November 2023