Cass Business School's new name is fitting tribute to information forefather Thomas Bayes

Mike Lynch writes for City A.M. to discuss the importance of statistician Reverend Thomas Bayes, who has played an important part in his life and, unbeknownst to many, an important part in all of our lives.

Alongside Alan Turing and his work in modern computing and Claude Shannon for his information theory, Reverend Thomas Bayes is a founding father of the information age in which we are living. His theorem provided a simple but revolutionary way of calculating how likely a particular hypothesis is.

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