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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

The Laplace–Stieltjes transform, named for Pierre-Simon Laplace and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, is an integral transform similar to the Laplace transform...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Its subsequent development has interwoven a variety of scientific...

town hosts one of the last kaleidoscope manufacturers in France. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher...

Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer. Laplace, LaPlace or La Place may also refer to: Laplace Island (Antarctica) La Place,...

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

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

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...

importance in the field as shown by quotes attributed to many of them: Pierre-Simon Laplace expressed Euler's influence on mathematics by stating, "Read Euler...

population and computing 'life-annuities'. Independently of Bayes, Pierre-Simon Laplace used conditional probability to formulate the relation of an updated...

method is named after Jørgen Pedersen Gram and Erhard Schmidt, but Pierre-Simon Laplace had been familiar with it before Gram and Schmidt. In the theory...

is identified with the works of Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace. As stated in Laplace's Théorie analytique des probabilités, The probability...

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...