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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Born

in Beaumont-en-Auge, France

March 23, 1749

Died

March 05, 1827

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace

Genre

Mathematics, Science, Astronomy

Influences

Antoine Lavoisier, Siméon Denis Poisson, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Willia ...more

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People note theory of French mathematician and astronomer Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace of a nebular origin of the solar system and his investigations into gravity and the stability of planetary motion.

His pivotal work led to the development of statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. In statistics, the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by Laplace.

Laplace formulated Laplace's equation and pioneered the Laplace transform in many branches of mathematical physics, a field that he took a lea ...more

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	A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (Dover Books on Mathematics) 4.02 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exposition du système du monde 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1835 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celestial Mechanics (5-Volume Set in English & French) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The System Of The World V1 by Pierre-Simon Laplace, J. Pond (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mechanism of the Heavens by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Mary Somerville (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Livre nationale by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Joseph-Louis Lagrange it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nocturne #1 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Treatise of Celestial Mechanics, Vol. 1: Book the First, Translated From the French, and Elucidated With Explanatory Notes liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Séances des Ecoles Normales, tome quatrieme by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Bernard Germain de Lacépède 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1800	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Napoleon, when hearing about Laplace's latest book, said, 'M. Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its creator.'

Laplace responds, 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là. (I had no need of that hypothesis.)”
― Pierre-Simon Laplace

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“We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.”
― Pierre Simon de Laplace