Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar whose work was important...
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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...
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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...
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theory and statistics, the Laplace distribution is a continuous probability distribution named after Pierre-Simon Laplace. It is also sometimes called...
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Spherical harmonics (redirect from Laplace series)
}^{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...
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is identified with the works of Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace. As stated in Laplace's Théorie analytique des probabilités, The probability...
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after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami. For any twice-differentiable real-valued function f defined on Euclidean space Rn, the Laplace operator...
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points. The Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector is named after Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Runge and Wilhelm Lenz. It is also known as the Laplace vector, the...
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In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/), is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable...
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Mechanism (philosophy) (section de Laplace)
Among them were Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot. The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications...
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The Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (Pierre Simon Laplace Institute) is a French organization made up of 9 laboratories (CEREA, GEOPS, LATMOS, LERMA:TASQ...
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Pascal's wager (section Laplace)
which God should be worshipped. The probabilist mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace ridiculed the use of probability in theology. Even following Pascal's...
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1805, and Pierre-Simon Laplace who completed the mathematical description in the following year. It is sometimes also called the Young–Laplace–Gauss equation...
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Williams, "Probability with martingales", Cambridge 1991/2008 Pierre Simon de Laplace (1812). Analytical Theory of Probability. The first major treatise...
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after Pierre-Simon Laplace de Moivre-Laplace theorem that approximates binomial distribution with a normal distribution Laplace–Bayes estimator Laplace distribution...
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Probability theory: an analytic view. Cambridge University Press. Pierre Simon de Laplace (1812) Analytical Theory of Probability The first major treatise...
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University of Caen Normandy (redirect from Université de Caen)
1957. Its logo, the mythical Phoenix, symbolises this revival. Pierre-Simon de Laplace Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Caspar Barlaeus Urbain Le Verrier Guillaume-François...
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geometer to the Bureau des Longitudes succeeding Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1827. In 1817, he married Nancy de Bardi and with her, he had four children. His...
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part of the curriculum taught by first rank scientists such as Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Charles Étienne Louis Camus, Étienne Bézout, Sylvestre François...
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Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (category Burials at Val-de-Grâce (church))
astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace, the chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, the composers Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, André Grétry, Chevalier de Saint-Georges...
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microscopic plasma physics from N-body mechanics, A tribute to Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2, 1-68 van Kampen, N. G., "On...
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Cournot worked on determinism (in physics) and chance. Unlike Pierre-Simon de Laplace, who thought that nothing happens by chance, and Aristotle, who...
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awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the French Statistical Society in 2007 alongside Paul Deheuvels...
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barometric measurements in his experiments, and collaborated with Pierre Simon de Laplace in the invention of the calorimeter, an instrument for measuring...
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microscopic plasma physics from N-body mechanics, A tribute to Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2, 1-68 I. H. Hutchinson Principles...
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Leonhard Euler, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Alexis-Claude Clairaut, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon de Laplace. Laplace's five-volume...
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the Paris Hôtel de Ville. Among its 217 founders were some of the greatest scientific names of the time, including Pierre-Simon Laplace (the Society's...
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Traité de mécanique céleste (transl. "Treatise of celestial mechanics") is a five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and...
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changing distance of the Earth relative to Sun, Moon, and Jupiter by Pierre-Simon de Laplace in the 18th century showed that the periods at which gravity varies...
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Arcueil (category Communes of Val-de-Marne)
of radioactive elements. Jean-Paul Gaultier, fashion designer. Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Henri Rousseau...
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