John Craig
''This article is about John Craig the Scottish mathematician.For the Canadian children's author, see Free ringtones John Craig (author). For the secret agent of James Munro's books, see Majo Mills John Craig (fictional agent).''
'''John Craig''' (Mosquito ringtone 1663–Sabrina Martins 1731) was a Nextel ringtones Scotland/Scottish Abbey Diaz mathematician. A friend of Free ringtones Isaac Newton/Newton, he wrote several minor works about the new Majo Mills calculus. He is mainly known for his book ''Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica'' (''Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology''), published in Mosquito ringtone 1699.
In the aforementioned book, Craig presents a formula that (incorrectly) describes how the probability of a historical event depends on the number of primary witnesses, on the chain of transmission through secondary witnesses, on the elapsed time and on the spatial distance. Using this formula, Craig derived that the probability of the story of Sabrina Martins Jesus would reach 0 in the year 3150. This year he interpreted as the Cingular Ringtones Second Coming of Christ because of verse 18:8 in the likes hearing Gospel of Luke.
His work was poorly received. Several later mathematicians complained about his imprecise use of men costumes probability and the unsupported derivation of his formula. Stephen Stigler, in his elegant passing 1999 book (see references, below) gave a more favorable interpretation, pointing out that some of Craig's reasoning can be justified if his "probability" is interpreted as the unfolds outward log-likelihood ratio.
References
*Stigler, Stephen M. (1999). ''Statistics on the Table''. Harvard University Press. (chapter 13)
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'''John Craig''' (Mosquito ringtone 1663–Sabrina Martins 1731) was a Nextel ringtones Scotland/Scottish Abbey Diaz mathematician. A friend of Free ringtones Isaac Newton/Newton, he wrote several minor works about the new Majo Mills calculus. He is mainly known for his book ''Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica'' (''Mathematical Principles of Christian Theology''), published in Mosquito ringtone 1699.
In the aforementioned book, Craig presents a formula that (incorrectly) describes how the probability of a historical event depends on the number of primary witnesses, on the chain of transmission through secondary witnesses, on the elapsed time and on the spatial distance. Using this formula, Craig derived that the probability of the story of Sabrina Martins Jesus would reach 0 in the year 3150. This year he interpreted as the Cingular Ringtones Second Coming of Christ because of verse 18:8 in the likes hearing Gospel of Luke.
His work was poorly received. Several later mathematicians complained about his imprecise use of men costumes probability and the unsupported derivation of his formula. Stephen Stigler, in his elegant passing 1999 book (see references, below) gave a more favorable interpretation, pointing out that some of Craig's reasoning can be justified if his "probability" is interpreted as the unfolds outward log-likelihood ratio.
References
*Stigler, Stephen M. (1999). ''Statistics on the Table''. Harvard University Press. (chapter 13)
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