Read the bio below and try to give details on john craig -lrb- mathematician -rrb- 's: - residence - known for - influences - death date - field - academic advisors - birth date - name - nationality - death place - birth place - alma mater Bio: john craig -lrb- 1663 -- october 11 , 1731 -rrb- was a scottish mathematician and theologian . born in dumfries and 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 . he is mainly known for his book '' theologiae christianae principia mathematica '' -lrb- '' mathematical principles of christian theology '' -rrb- , published in 1698 . 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 . using this formula , craig derived that the probability of the story of jesus would reach 0 in the year 3150 . this year he interpreted as the second coming of christ because of verse 18:8 in the gospel of luke . his work was poorly received . several later mathematicians complained about his imprecise use of probability and the unsupported derivation of his formula . stephen stigler , in his 1999 book -lrb- see references , below -rrb- gave a more favorable interpretation , pointing out that some of craig 's reasoning can be justified if his '' probability '' is interpreted as the log-likelihood ratio . he was elected fellow of the royal society in 1711 .
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- residence is england- known for is log-likelihood ratio- influences is isaac newton- death date is october 11 , 1731- field is mathematician- academic advisors is david gregory- birth date is 1663- name is john craig- nationality is scottish- death place is high holborn , london , england- birth place is hoddam , dumfries , scotland- alma mater is university of edinburgh