Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact SciencePrinceton University Press, 2000 M02 27 - 322 pages Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famous treatises were the five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-1825) and Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812). In the former he demonstrated mathematically the stability of the solar system in service to the universal Newtonian law of gravity. In the latter he developed probability from a set of miscellaneous problems concerning games, averages, mortality, and insurance risks into the branch of mathematics that permitted the quantification of estimates of error and the drawing of statistical inferences, wherever data warranted, in social, medical, and juridical matters, as well as in the physical sciences. |
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... Academy Chapter 2. Finite Differences , Recurrent Series , and Theory of Chance Chapter 3. Probability of Events and of Their Causes : The Origin of Statistical Inference Chapter 4. Universal Gravitation vii 2 . xi 37 13 29 32880 ...
... Academy . Laplace accompanied both Mécanique céleste and Théorie analytique des probabilités by verbal paraphrases addressed to the intelligent public in the French tradition of haute vulgarisation . The Exposition du système du monde ...
... Academy she has graciously authorized reproduction of the portrait that serves as frontispiece . Its date is 1842 , and it seems highly probable that the painting would have been commissioned by Madame Laplace , who , with the very ...
... Academy GENEALOGICAL RECORDS of the Laplace family in lower Normandy go back to the middle of the seventeenth century . ' Laplace's father , Pierre , was a syndic of the parish , probably in the cider business and certainly in ...
... Academy of Science . If its records are complete , he presented thirteen papers in just under three years , beginning in March 1770. The topics were extreme - value problems ; adaptation of the integral calculus to the solution of ...
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