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 Thomas Bayes, An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances (1763)- Published after he died, by Richard Price. How to update a belief. worked example.
Wikipedia - Joseph Fourier, Théorie analytique de la chaleur (1822)
- Any reasonable signal is a sum of sines. more.
Wikipedia - Claude Shannon, "Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" (1949)
- Perfect secrecy, and the one-time pad. more.
Wikipedia - Plimpton 322 (around 1800 BC)
- A Babylonian table of Pythagorean triples, in base 60. more.
Wikipedia - The Antikythera mechanism (2nd century BC)
- A geared bronze calculator, the oldest known analogue computer. more.
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