Pierre-Simon Laplace

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French person astronomer human mathematician physicist

Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer whose work laid the foundations of celestial mechanics, probability theory, and statistics.

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Label	Occurrences
Pierre-Simon Laplace canonical	39
Laplace	1
Marquis de Laplace	1
Pierre-Simon	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person ⓘ astronomer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ physicist ⓘ
academicAdvisor	Jean d’Alembert ⓘ surface form: Jean le Rond d’Alembert
birthCountry	France ⓘ
birthDate	1749-03-23 ⓘ
birthPlace	Beaumont-en-Auge ⓘ
citizenship	France ⓘ
contributedTo	Bayes’ theorem ⓘ nebular hypothesis ⓘ perturbation theory in celestial mechanics ⓘ potential theory ⓘ stability of the Solar System ⓘ theory of errors ⓘ
deathDate	1827-03-05 ⓘ
deathPlace	Paris ⓘ
developedConcept	Bayesian interpretation of probability ⓘ Laplace equation ⓘ Laplace operator ⓘ Laplace transform ⓘ Laplace’s demon ⓘ
era	18th century ⓘ 19th century ⓘ
familyName	Pierre-Simon Laplace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Laplace
fieldOfWork	astronomy ⓘ celestial mechanics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ probability theory ⓘ statistics ⓘ
givenName	Pierre-Simon Laplace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Pierre-Simon
heldTitle	Pierre-Simon Laplace self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Marquis de Laplace
influenced	Carl Friedrich Gauss ⓘ Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier ⓘ surface form: Joseph Fourier Siméon Denis Poisson ⓘ modern probability theory ⓘ
language	French ⓘ
memberOf	Académie française ⓘ Académie des Sciences ⓘ surface form: French Academy of Sciences Royal Society ⓘ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ⓘ
name	Pierre-Simon Laplace self-link ⓘ
notableWork	De mundi systemate (On the system of the world) ⓘ surface form: Exposition du système du monde Mécanique céleste ⓘ Théorie analytique des probabilités ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
servedAs	Minister of the Interior of France ⓘ
servedUnder	Napoleon Bonaparte ⓘ

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De ratiociniis in ludo aleae → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Pierre → borneBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

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central limit theorem → hasHistoricalContributor → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Jean-Baptiste → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

subject surface form: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier

Enlightenment science → hasKeyFigure → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Pierre-Simon Laplace → name → Pierre-Simon Laplace self-link ⓘ

Pierre-Simon Laplace → givenName → Pierre-Simon Laplace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pierre-Simon

Pierre-Simon Laplace → familyName → Pierre-Simon Laplace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace → heldTitle → Pierre-Simon Laplace self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Marquis de Laplace

Jakob Bernoulli → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Blaise Pascal → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Joseph-Louis Lagrange → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste → originalAuthor → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste → associatedPerson → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

André-Marie Ampère → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Jean d’Alembert → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

CLT → historicallyAssociatedWith → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Simon Newcomb → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Bayesian inference → developedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Abraham de Moivre → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Joseph → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

subject surface form: Joseph Fourier

William Rowan Hamilton → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

John Couch Adams → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Claude-Louis Berthollet → collaboratedWith → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Siméon Denis Poisson → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Beaumont-en-Auge → hasNotablePerson → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Mécanique céleste → author → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

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Théorie analytique des probabilités → author → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace transform → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace equation → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace operator → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace’s demon → hasAuthor → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace’s demon → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Ars Conjectandi → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace method → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace law of error → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Laplace resonance → namedAfter → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

The Doctrine of Chances → influenced → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Pafnuty Chebyshev → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ

Édouard Roche → influencedBy → Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ