Sanderson and the Fourth Lucasian: The Blind Mathematician Who Shaped Cambridge

In Episode 5 of our Lucasian Professors series, we explore Nicholas Sanderson, the fourth holder of Newton's chair and a blind master of numbers. From learning arithmetic at his father's side to revolutionizing Cambridge's math pedagogy, his life embodies resilience and invention. We examine his contributions to Newton's Principia, his accessible introduction to differential calculus, the debated claim of an early Bayes' theorem discovery, and how his manuscripts and teaching left a lasting mark on Cambridge mathematics.

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