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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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French person → astronomer → human → mathematician → physicist →
academicAdvisor	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	Laplace →
fieldOfWork	astronomy → celestial mechanics → mathematics → physics → probability theory → statistics →
givenName	Pierre-Simon →
heldTitle	Marquis de Laplace →
influenced	Carl Friedrich Gauss → Joseph Fourier → Siméon Denis Poisson → modern probability theory →
language	French →
memberOf	Académie française → French Academy of Sciences → Royal Society → Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences →
name	Pierre-Simon Laplace →
notableWork	Exposition du système du monde → Mécanique céleste → Théorie analytique des probabilités →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
servedAs	Minister of the Interior of France →
servedUnder	Napoleon Bonaparte →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abraham de Moivre → Blaise Pascal → De ratiociniis in ludo aleae → Jakob Bernoulli → Jean d’Alembert → Joseph-Louis Lagrange →	influenced
André-Marie Ampère → Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier → Joseph Fourier → Simon Newcomb →	influencedBy
Translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste →	associatedPerson
Pierre →	borneBy
Bayesian inference →	developedBy
Pierre-Simon Laplace ("Laplace") →	familyName
Pierre-Simon Laplace ("Pierre-Simon") →	givenName
central limit theorem →	hasHistoricalContributor
Enlightenment science →	hasKeyFigure
Académie des Sciences →	hasNotableMember
Pierre-Simon Laplace ("Marquis de Laplace") →	heldTitle
CLT →	historicallyAssociatedWith
Pierre-Simon Laplace →	name
Translation of Laplace's Mécanique Céleste →	originalAuthor