Thomas Bayes (approx. 1702, London - April 17th 1761) is a British mathematician and Pasteur of the Église presbytérienne, known to have formulated the Théorème of Bayes.

Its discoveries in probabilities were summarized in its Essais on the manner of solving a problem in the doctrines of the risks ( Essay Towards Solving has Problem in the Doctrine off Chances - 1763) published in posthumous title in the reports of the royal Academy of London (the Philosophical Transactions off the Royal Society off London).
One owes him in particular an important law of the probabilities, the rule of Bayes (posthumous, 1764), very much used in automatic Classification. An example among others is the fight against the junk email, by the method known as of Inférence bayésienne.

One knows two publications of alive sound to him: divine Benevolence, or an attempt at proof that fine the first of divine Providence and Government is the Happiness of its creatures (1731) and an introduction to the doctrines of the fluxions, and a defense of the mathematicians against the objections made with the author of the Analysis in which it defends the bases of the Analysis established by Isaac Newton (1736).

Born with London, he died in Tunbridge Wells, in the Kent. Its skin rests in the cemetery of Bunhill Fields in London.

External English bonds

• Who was The rev. Thomas Bayes?

• Biographical sketch off Thomas Bayes

• '' One Summons off Recently Discovered Manuscripts Thomas Bayes '', by D.R. Bellhouse

• '' An essay towards solving has Problem… '', the original test of Bayes, reproduced with LaTeX

• '' An Essay Towards Solving has Problem… '', by Daniel Covarrubias, a presentation and an interpretation of the test of Bayes

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