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

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...

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...

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

}^{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...

Among them were Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot. The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant. He is known to have been the mentor of Pierre-Simon Laplace. He died in Caen. Exposé des quelques unes des vérités rigoureusement...

which God should be worshipped. The probabilist mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace ridiculed the use of probability in theology, believing that even...

at the University of Reading and directeur de recherche CNRS at LOCEAN at Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) in Paris. He is an expert of the El Niño...

Leonhard Euler, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, Alexis-Claude Clairaut, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon de Laplace. Laplace's five-volume...

1957. Its logo, the mythical Phoenix, symbolises this revival. Pierre-Simon de Laplace Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Caspar Barlaeus Urbain Le Verrier Guillaume-François...

Traité de mécanique céleste (transl. "Treatise of celestial mechanics") is a five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and...

microscopic plasma physics from N-body mechanics, A tribute to Pierre-Simon de Laplace". Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics. 2 (1): 68. Hutchinson, I. H...

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...

Williams, "Probability with martingales", Cambridge 1991/2008 Pierre Simon de Laplace (1812). Analytical Theory of Probability. The first major treatise...

barometric measurements in his experiments, and collaborated with Pierre Simon de Laplace in the invention of the calorimeter, an instrument for measuring...

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...

theory of probability, the variance gamma (VG) process, also known as Laplace motion, is a Lévy process determined by a random time change. The process...

astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace, the chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, the composers Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, André Grétry, Chevalier de Saint-Georges...

Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, French politician (d. 1791) March 10 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838) March 23 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician...

Probability theory: an analytic view. Cambridge University Press. Pierre Simon de Laplace (1812) Analytical Theory of Probability The first major treatise...