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The system of the world. Translated from the French, and elucidated, with explanatory notes by Pierre Simon Laplace, Henry Hickman Harte, 2010-08-21 The System Of The World V1 by Pierre Simon LaPlace, 2007-07-25 A philosophical essay on probabilities by Pierre Simon Laplace, 2010-08-28 Euvres Complètes De Laplace: Exposition Du Système Du Monde. 6. Éd., 1835. 1848 (French Edition) by Pierre Simon Laplace, Académie Des Sciences, 2010-03-31 The Mechanics of Laplace (Classic Reprint) by Pierre Simon Laplace, 2010-09-07 Ueber Die Anziehung Homogener Ellipsoide: Abhandlungen Von Laplace (1782), Ivory (1809), Gauss (1813), Chasles (1838) Und Dirichlet (1839). (German Edition) by Albert Wangerin, Pierre Simon Laplace, et all 2010-04-01 Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 by Charles Coulston Gillispie, 2000-02-07 Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist by Roger Hahn, 2005-10-24 Euvres Complètes De Laplace, Volume 12 (French Edition) by Pierre Simon Laplace, Académie Des Sciences, 2010-03-04 Elementary illustrations of the Celestial mechanics of Laplace: Part the first, comprehending the first book by Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, 1821-01-01 Euvres Complètes De Laplace, Volume 5 (French Edition) by Pierre Simon Laplace, Académie Des Sciences, 2010-03-05 Euvres Complètes De Laplace, Volume 3 (French Edition) by Pierre Simon Laplace, Académie Des Sciences, 2010-02-23 The Mechanics of Laplace by Pierre Simon Laplace, 2010-01-06 Euvres Complètes De Laplace: Publiées Sous Les Auspices De L'académie Des Sciences, Volume 9 (French Edition) by Pierre Simon Laplace, Académie Des Sciences, 2010-03-09

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1. Laplace
   PierreSimon Laplace. Born 23 Pierre-Simon Laplace s father, Pierre Laplace,was comfortably well off in the cider trade. Laplace s mother  
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   Extractions: Pierre-Simon Laplace There is little record of intellectual distinction in the family beyond what was to be expected of the cultivated provincial bourgeoisie and the minor gentry. Laplace attended a Benedictine priory school in Beaumont-en-Auge, as a day pupil, between the ages of 7 and 16. His father expected him to make a career in the Church and indeed either the Church or the army were the usual destinations of pupils at the priory school. At the age of 16 Laplace entered Caen University. As he was still intending to enter the Church, he enrolled to study theology. However, during his two years at the University of Caen, Laplace discovered his mathematical talents and his love of the subject. Credit for this must go largely to two teachers of mathematics at Caen, C Gadbled and P Le Canu of whom little is known except that they realised Laplace's great mathematical potential. Once he knew that mathematics was to be his subject, Laplace left Caen without taking his degree, and went to Paris. He took with him a letter of introduction to

2. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Encyclopedia Article About Pierre-Simon Laplace. Free Acc
   PierreSimon Laplace. Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 23 March 23 is the 82ndday of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years).  
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3. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   PierreSimon Laplace. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. EnlargePierre-Simon Laplace. Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 23, 1749  
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   Extractions: Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace March 23 March 5 ) was a French mathematician , the discoverer of the Laplace transform and Laplace's equation . He was a believer in causal determinism One well-known formula associated with Laplace is the Rule of Succession . Suppose that some trial has only two possible outcomes, labelled "success" and "failure". Under the assumption that little or nothing is known a priori about the relative plausibilities of the outcomes, Laplace derived a formula for the probability that the next trial will be a success. where s is the number of previously observed successes and n is the total number of observed trials. It is still used as an estimator for the probability of an event if we know the event space, but only have a small number of samples. The Rule of Succession has been subject to much criticism, partly due to the example which Laplace chose to illustrate it. He calculated that the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow, given that it has never failed to in the past, was where d is the number of times the sun has risen in the past. This result has been derided as absurd, and some authors have concluded that all applications of the Rule of Succession are absurd by extension. However, Laplace was fully aware of the absurdity of the result; immediately following the example, he wrote, "But this number [i.e., the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow] is far greater for him who, seeing in the totality of phenomena the principle regulating the days and seasons, realizes that nothing at the present moment can arrest the course of it."

4. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   PierreSimon Laplace. (Redirected from Pierre Laplace). Enlarge Pierre-SimonLaplace. Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 23, 1749  
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   Extractions: (Redirected from Pierre Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace March 23 March 5 ) was a French mathematician , the discoverer of the Laplace transform and Laplace's equation . He was a believer in causal determinism One well-known formula associated with Laplace is the Rule of Succession . Suppose that some trial has only two possible outcomes, labelled "success" and "failure". Under the assumption that little or nothing is known a priori about the relative plausibilities of the outcomes, Laplace derived a formula for the probability that the next trial will be a success. where s is the number of previously observed successes and n is the total number of observed trials. It is still used as an estimator for the probability of an event if we know the event space, but only have a small number of samples. The Rule of Succession has been subject to much criticism, partly due to the example which Laplace chose to illustrate it. He calculated that the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow, given that it has never failed to in the past, was where d is the number of times the sun has risen in the past. This result has been derided as absurd, and some authors have concluded that all applications of the Rule of Succession are absurd by extension. However, Laplace was fully aware of the absurdity of the result; immediately following the example, he wrote, "But this number [i.e., the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow] is far greater for him who, seeing in the totality of phenomena the principle regulating the days and seasons, realizes that nothing at the present moment can arrest the course of it."

5. Pierre-Simon De Laplace - Biografia - Biografieonline.it
   Translate this page Spot Tesionline.it. Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Trasformate nellastoria. Pierre-Simon de Laplace nelle opere letterarie. Astronomo  
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6. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   thumb PierreSimon laplace pierre-simon Laplace (March 23 1749 - March 5 1827)was a French mathematician, the discoverer of the Laplace transform and  
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   Extractions: Pierre-Simon Laplace March 23 March 5 ) was a French mathematician , the discoverer of the Laplace transform and Laplace's equation . He was a believer in causal determinism One well-known formula associated with Laplace is the Rule of Succession. Suppose that some trial has only two possible outcomes, labelled "success" and "failure". Under the assumption that little or nothing is known a priori about the relative plausibilities of the outcomes, Laplace derived a formula for the probability that the next trial will be a success. where s is the number of previously observed successes and n is the total number of observed trials. It is still used as an estimator for the probability of an event if we know the event space, but only have a small number of samples. The Rule of Succession has been subject to much criticism, partly due to the example which Laplace chose to illustrate it. He calculated that the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow, given that it has never failed to in the past, was where d is the number of times the sun has risen in the past. This result has been derided as absurd, and some authors have concluded that all applications of the Rule of Succession are absurd by extension. However, Laplace was fully aware of the absurdity of the result; immediately following the example, he wrote, "But this number [i.e., the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow] is far greater for him who, seeing in the totality of phenomena the principle regulating the days and seasons, realizes that nothing at the present moment can arrest the course of it."

7. Laplace
   PierreSimon Laplace. March 28 1749 - March 5 1827 Born Beaumont-en-Auge,France. Died Paris, France. Welcome page The World Great  
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   Extractions: Laplace proved the stability of the solar system. In analysis Laplace introduced the potential function and Laplace coefficients. He also put the theory of mathematical probability on a sound footing. Laplace attended a Benedictine priory school in Beaumont between the ages of 7 and 16. At the age of 16 he entered Caen University intending to study theology. Laplace wrote his first mathematics paper while at Caen. because he brought the spirit of the infinitely small into the government Laplace became Count of the Empire in 1806 and he was named a marquis in 1817 after the restoration of the Bourbons. In his later years he lived in Arcueil, where he helped to found the Societe d'Arcueil and encouraged the research of young scientists. Laplace presented his famous nebular hypothesis in "Exposition du systeme du monde" (1796), which viewed the solar system as originating from the contracting and cooling of a large, flattened, and slowly rotating cloud of incandescent gas. Laplace discovered the invariability of planetary mean motions. In 1786 he proved that the eccentricities and inclinations of planetary orbits to each other always remain small, constant, and self-correcting. These results appear in his greatest work, "Traité du Mécanique Céleste" published in 5 volumes over 26 years (1799-1825).

8. Pierre-Simon Laplace
   PierreSimon Laplace. Pierre-Simon Laplace (March 23 1749 - March 51827) was a French mathematician, the discoverer of the Laplace  
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   Extractions: Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Pierre-Simon Laplace March 23 March 5 ) was a French mathematician , the discoverer of the Laplace transform and Laplace's equation . He was a believer in causal determinism One curious formula for the probability that the sun would rise was given by Laplace. He claimed that this probability was , where d is the number of days that the sun has risen in the past. Laplace claimed that this formula, known as (Laplace) Rule of Succession, applied in all cases where we knew nothing, or where what we did know was swamped by what we didn't. It is still used as an estimator for the probability of an event if we know the event space, but only have a small number of samples. Laplace strongly believed in causal determinism, which is expressed in the following citation: "We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at any given moment knew all of the forces that animate nature and the mutual positions of the beings that compose it, if this intellect were vast enough to submit the data to analysis, could condense into a single formula the movement of the greatest bodies of the universe and that of the lightest atom; for such an intellect nothing could be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes." This intellect is often referred to as Laplace's demon . The discoveries of modern physics , especially quantum physics (see uncertainty principle ) proved that the existence of such an intellect is not possible even in principle.

9. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pierre-Simon Laplace
   Mathematician and astronomer. (17491827)  
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   Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... L > Pierre-Simon Laplace A B C D ... Z Mathematical and physical astronomer, b. in Beaumont-en-Auge, near Caen, department of Calvados, France, in March (dates given 28, 25, 23, 22), 1749; d. in Paris, 5 March, 1827. The son of a small farmer, he became connected with the military school of his town, first as pupil, then as teacher. At the age of eighteen he went to Paris, and, after convincing d'Alembert of his talents by a letter on the principles of mechanics, obtained a professorship at the military school of the capital. Later he became examiner of the royal artillery (1784) and professor at the Ecole Normale. During the political changes in France he sought favour with Revolution , consul, emperor, and king. In 1799 he accepted from the consul the post of minister of the interior, but, after six weeks, was removed for administrative incapacity. He was a member and even chancellor (1803) of the Senate, and great officer of the Legion of Honour and of the new Order of Reunion. After the downfall of Napoleon Boston (1829-39) in four volumes.

10. Matematicos
    Matem¡tico franc©s (1749 1827).  
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11. Laplace (Pierre Simon)
    laplace in life and science. Many links available. pierresimon. laplace. 23 mars 1749 - 5 mars 1827 Pour en savoir plus sur la biographie de laplace, vous pouvez consulter l'excellente archive d'histoire des maths de  
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12. Laplace
    Biography of pierresimon laplace (1749-1827) pierre-simon laplace's father, Pierre laplace, was comfortably well off in the cider trade. laplace's mother, Marie-Anne Sochon, came from a  
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    Extractions: Pierre-Simon Laplace There is little record of intellectual distinction in the family beyond what was to be expected of the cultivated provincial bourgeoisie and the minor gentry. Laplace attended a Benedictine priory school in Beaumont-en-Auge, as a day pupil, between the ages of 7 and 16. His father expected him to make a career in the Church and indeed either the Church or the army were the usual destinations of pupils at the priory school. At the age of 16 Laplace entered Caen University. As he was still intending to enter the Church, he enrolled to study theology. However, during his two years at the University of Caen, Laplace discovered his mathematical talents and his love of the subject. Credit for this must go largely to two teachers of mathematics at Caen, C Gadbled and P Le Canu of whom little is known except that they realised Laplace's great mathematical potential. Once he knew that mathematics was to be his subject, Laplace left Caen without taking his degree, and went to Paris. He took with him a letter of introduction to

13. Laplace, Pierre (1749-1827) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biograp
    Mathematicians. Branch of Science. Physicists. Nationality. French. laplace, Pierre (17491827) Gillispie, C. C. pierre-simon laplace, 1749-1827 A Life in Exact Science. Princeton, NJ Princeton  
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    Extractions: 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 (1799-1825). This work was important because it translated the geometrical study of mechanics used by Newton to one based on calculus known as physical mechanics. In Laplace proved the dynamical stability of the solar system (with tidal friction ignored) on short time scales. On long time scales, however, this assertion was proven false in the early 1990s. Laplace solved the libration of the Moon In this work, he frequently omitted derivations, leaving only results with the remark "il est aisé à voia" (it is easy to see). It is said that he himself could not always fill in the derivations later without days of work. For a revealing quote, see the remark made by Laplace's translator Bowditch . After reading Napoleon is said to have questioned Laplace on his neglect to mention God. In stark contrast to

14. Pierre-Simon, Marquis De Laplace --  Encyclopædia Britannica
    pierresimon, marquis de laplace. born March 23, 1749, Beaumount-en-Auge, Normandy, France MLA style " pierre-simon, Marquis de laplace." Encyclopædia Britannica  
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15. Laplace, Pierre-Simon, Marquis De
    laplace, pierresimon (17491827). Mathematician and astronomer,laplace was born in Normandy, France. He attended the University  
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    Extractions: Laplace, Pierre-Simon (17491827) Mathematician and astronomer, Laplace was born in Normandy, France. He attended the University of Caen and then at age 19 moved to Paris to teach at the École militaire. From 1795 to 1799, he taught at the École polytechnique Laplace initially made an impact by solving a complex problem of mutual gravitation that had eluded both Euler and Lagrange Laplace was among the most influential scientists of his time and was called the Newton of France for his study of and contributions to the understanding of the stability of the solar system. Laplace generalized the laws of mechanics for their application to the motion and properties of the heavenly bodies. He is also famous for his great treatises entitled M canique c leste (17991825) and Th orie analytique des probabilit s They were advanced in large part by the mathematical techniques that Laplace developed early in his life; most notably among those techniques are generating functions, differential operators, and definite integrals Major publications: M canique c leste, Th

16. Pierre-Simon De LAPLACE
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17. Laplace, Pierre Simon Laplace - Famous Mathematicians Pictures, Posters, Gifts I
    pierresimon laplace. 1749 - 1827. pierre-simon laplace was a mathematicianwho firmly believed the world was entirely deterministic.  
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    Extractions: Poster All items carry our Total Satisfaction Guarantee . If you are dissatisfied with any item you purchase, simply advise us and return it within 15 days for replacement or refund. Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace was a mathematician who firmly believed the world was entirely deterministic. Like a man with a hammer to whom everything was a nail, to Laplace the universe was nothing but a giant problem in calculus.

18. Laplace_Note
    gallery index. pierresimon laplace. French mathematician and physicist whosurvived the Ancien Regime, the Revolutionary Era, and the Restoration.  
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    Extractions: Pierre-Simon Laplace French mathematician and physicist who survived the Ancien Regime , the Revolutionary Era, and the Restoration. His major contributions to science belong to two fields: the "celestial mechanics" (explanation and reconstruction of astronomical movements by means of Newtonian mechanics) and the probability theory. It seems that the combination of these two are already established at the beginning of his career (around 1774), as well as the idea of famous "Laplace's demon". He frequently says that he was led to new results in the former by considerations of probability. Whether or not we take this remark seriously, he was certainly one of the leading figures in the formation of probabilistic method in science. However, it must pointed out that many of the extra assumptions for the applications of "inverse method of probability" (essentially the same as Bayes's theorem) were often brought in through the "principle of indifference". For instance, his "rule of succession" (for obtaining the probability of new events on the basis of past observations) clearly smuggles in principles of enumerative induction of one form or another by the application of the principle of idifference. All the same, he is one of the few giants in the history of probability and statistics.

19. Pierre Simon De Laplace - Encyclopedia Article About Pierre Simon De Laplace. Fr
    Pierre Simon de laplace. pierresimon laplace (March 23 March 23 is the82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years).  
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20. Pierre-Simon Laplace --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
    laplace, pierresimon Britannica Student Encyclopedia. , laplace, pierre-simon(1749–1827). One of the most brilliant astronomers  
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