Science on the 23rd of December 1763 in history

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23 Dec 1763 Thomas Bayes	science	Thomas Bayes (mathematics) Thomas Bayes' solution to a problem of "inverse probability" is presented posthumously in his "Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances" read by Richard Price to the Royal Society, containing a statement of a special case of Bayes' theorem.	0

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23 Dec 1763

Thomas Bayes

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Thomas Bayes (mathematics)
Thomas Bayes' solution to a problem of "inverse probability" is presented posthumously in his "Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances" read by Richard Price to the Royal Society, containing a statement of a special case of Bayes' theorem.

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