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by raxxorrax 2196 days ago
Blaise Pascal is another example. Heard he did something with all kinds of triangles.

He was quite invasive with his faith though.

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And Reverend Bayes, too.
Yes, REVEREND Bayes was clergy, too, and what would we do in machine learning without Bayes' theorem? (His grave is in London.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem

It seems Bayes never actually wrote down what is now called Bayes Theorem. (Perhaps he knew of it). I think it was Laplace that recognized the full generality of the relationship.