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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... mathematical astronomy , cosmology , theory of games of chance , and causality , pretty much in that order . During this forma- tive period , he established his style , reputation , philosophical position , certain mathematical ...
... mathematical physicists had their training . The educational mission attributed to all science in that period of intense civic consciousness changed the mode of scientific publication from academic memoir to general treatise . The first ...
... mathematical achievements and limitations per se . For that , and for the entire mathematical movement of his generation and the succeeding one , the reader may and should turn to the magisterial study by my colleague and collaborator ...
... mathematical gifts , for instead of continuing in the Faculty of Theology , he departed for Paris in 1768 ... mathematics , and their own to his talent , were Christophe Gadbled and Pierre Le Canu . All that is known about them is that ...
... mathematical reputation in order to win election to the 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 ...
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