18th Century Math Will Get You Your Next Job

Many of us assume that everything companies invent is brand new, but sometimes the things that make cutting edge-technology run smoothly are borrowed from centuries-old statisticians.Take, for example, artificial intelligence (AI). The initial concept can be traced, at least in part, to English theologian and mathematician Thomas Bayes – all the way back to 1763.Bayes' theorem was the first to establish the mathematical basis for inferring the probability of an ...