Nicholas Saunderson was a blind English scientist and mathematician. According to one historian of statistics, he may have been the earliest discoverer of Bayes' theorem. He worked as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a post also held by Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage and Stephen Hawking.
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Position held
- Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- January 1, 1682
- Died
- April 19, 1739
