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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ l ə ˈ p l ɑː s /; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy.
Traité de mécanique céleste (transl. "Treatise of celestial 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.
France has a long history of innovation and scientific discovery, contributing to various fields such as physics, mathematics, engineering, medicine, and the arts. French inventors and scientists have pioneered breakthroughs that shaped the modern world, from the development of photography and the metric system to advancements in aviation, nuclear physics, and immunology.
In 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. [1] According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed ...
While Newton explained the tides by describing the tide-generating forces and Daniel Bernoulli gave a description of the static reaction of the waters on Earth to the tidal potential, the dynamic theory of tides, developed by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1775, [32] describes the ocean's real reaction to tidal forces. [33]
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities is a work by Pierre-Simon Laplace on the mathematical theory of probability. [1] [2] [3] The book consists of two parts, the first with five chapters and the second with thirteen. [1]
Laplace, Pierre-Simon: French: 1749: 1827: Co-invented Bayesian statistics. Invented exponential families (Laplace transform), conjugate prior distributions, asymptotic analysis of estimators (including negligibility of regular priors).
Pierre-Simon Laplace Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert [ a ] ( / ˌ d æ l ə m ˈ b ɛər / DAL -əm- BAIR ; [ 1 ] French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ] ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician , physicist , philosopher, and music theorist .