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Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (1799–1825). This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening ...
Laplace, Pierre (1749-1827) French physicist and mathematician who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and extending the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This work was important because it translated the geometrical study of mechanics used by Newton to ...
Pierre-Simon Laplace (Pierre-Simon, marqués de Laplace; Beaumont-en-Auge, Francia, 1749 - París, 1827) Matemático francés. Hijo de un granjero, inició sus estudios primarios en la escuela local, pero gracias a la intervención de D'Alembert, quien había quedado profundamente impresionado por un escrito del joven sobre los principios de la mecánica, pudo trasladarse a la capital, donde ...
LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON DE(1749–1827) Pierre Simon de Laplace, the French astronomer and mathematician famous for his celestial mechanics and theory of probability, was born in Normandy. Upon coming to Paris, he attracted the attention of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, who found him employment in the É cole Militaire.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), later Marquis de Laplace, was a French mathematician and astronomer . His work helped to develop mathematical astronomy and statistics. His five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799–1825) was a key work. In it, he changed the geometric study of classical mechanics to one ...
b. 23 March 1749 - d. 5 March 1827. Summary. Pierre-Simon Laplace was the most prominent exponent of 19th century probability theory. His major probabilistic work, the Th ́eorie ana-lytique des probabilit ́es considerably influenced the development of mathe-matical probability and statistics right to the beginning of the 20th century.
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 – 1827) was a French mathematician and scientist. He is sometimes called the “Newton of France”, because of his wide range of interests, and the enormous impact of his work. In a five-volume book, Laplace translated problems in celestial mechanics from geometry to calculus. This opened up a wide range of new ...
