Thomas Bayes, the founder of Bayesian vision, entered the University of
Edinburgh in 1719 to study logic and theology. Returning in 1722, he worked with
his father in a small church. He also was a mathematician and in 1740 he made a
novel discovery which he never published, but his friend Richard Price found it in his
notes after his death in 1761, reedited
it and published it. But until L...