John Craig was a Scottish mathematician and theologian, born at Dumfries in 1663 and dying on 11 October 1731. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he moved to England and became a vicar in the Church of England. A friend of Isaac Newton, he wrote several minor works about the new calculus and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1711. He is known for his 1698 book Theologiae Christianae Principia Mathematica, in which he gave a formula for how the probability of a historical event depends on the number of primary witnesses, the chain of transmission through secondary witnesses, the elapsed time and the spatial distance, and from which he derived that the probability of the story of Jesus would reach zero in the year 3150. The work was poorly received. In 1710 he published Logarithmotechnica generalis in the Philosophical Transactions, developing the hyperbolic logarithm and giving the Mercator series.
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John Craig (1663 – 11 October 1731) was a Scottish mathematician and theologian.
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John was his parents second son, having a brother William six years his senior.
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John Craig (1663-11 October 1731) was a Scottish mathematician and theologian.
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In the aforementioned book, Craig presents a formula that 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.
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A friend of Isaac Newton, he wrote several minor works about the new calculus.
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