Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has...

history of science, Laplace's demon was a notable published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. According...

1805, and Pierre-Simon Laplace who completed the mathematical description in the following year. It is sometimes also called the Young–Laplace–Gauss equation...

after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami. For any twice-differentiable real-valued function f defined on Euclidean space Rn, the Laplace operator...

theory and statistics, the Laplace distribution is a continuous probability distribution named after Pierre-Simon Laplace. It is also sometimes called...

The Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (Pierre Simon Laplace Institute) is a French organization made up of 9 laboratories (CEREA, GEOPS, LATMOS, LERMA:TASQ...

In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/), is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable...

mathematics and physics, Laplace's equation is a second-order partial differential equation named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, who first studied its properties...

graph. Named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, the graph Laplacian matrix can be viewed as a matrix form of the negative discrete Laplace operator on a graph...

using what is now known as Bayesian inference.: 131  Mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace pioneered and popularized what is now called Bayesian probability...

centered at p deviates from f (p). The Laplace operator is named after the French mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), who first applied the...

process, not an isothermal process). This error was later rectified by Pierre-Simon Laplace. During the 17th century there were several attempts to measure the...

mechanics") is a five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and published from 1798 to 1825 with a second edition in 1829. In...

rule of succession is a formula introduced in the 18th century by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the course of treating the sunrise problem. The formula is still...

18th to the early 19th centuries, Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Bayesian interpretation of probability. Laplace used methods now considered Bayesian...

In mathematics, Laplace's method, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is a technique used to approximate integrals of the form ∫ a b e M f ( x ) d x , {\displaystyle...

}^{m}({\mathbf {r} })} , are known as Laplace's spherical harmonics, as they were first introduced by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1782. These functions form an...

The Laplace plane or Laplacian plane of a planetary satellite, named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), is a mean or reference plane...

Mettrie and Denis Diderot. The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications of the mechanist thesis, writing:...

In linear algebra, the Laplace expansion, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, also called cofactor expansion, is an expression of the determinant of an...

after Euler's death have recognised his importance in the field: Pierre-Simon Laplace said, "Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all"; Carl...

recognized his talent early on and became his friend. Meanwhile, Pierre-Simon Laplace, in whose footsteps Poisson followed, regarded him almost as his...

after Pierre-Simon Laplace de Moivre-Laplace theorem that approximates binomial distribution with a normal distribution Laplace–Bayes estimator Laplace distribution...

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities is a work by Pierre-Simon Laplace on the mathematical theory of probability. The book consists of two parts, the...

philosopher Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), a French typographer Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836), a French mathematician and engineer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)...

escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild found the first modern solution of general...

Solar System has preoccupied many mathematicians, starting with Pierre-Simon Laplace. The stable orbits that arise in a two-body approximation ignore...

rings are made up of a series of tiny ringlets can be traced to Pierre-Simon Laplace, although true gaps are few – it is more correct to think of the...

momentum-transport (especially dissipation) inside a fluid. It is named after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Indonesian physicist P. C. Suratman. It is defined as follows:...

for firefighting. A study conducted by scientists at the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace attributed the intensified fire conditions primarily to anthropogenic...