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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has

Updated: August 31, 2026
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Laplace's demon

science, Laplace's demon was a notable articulation of the idea of scientific causal determinism, published in 1814 by Pierre-Simon Laplace. According

Updated: September 8, 2026
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Young–Laplace equation

1805, and Pierre-Simon Laplace who completed the mathematical description in the following year. It is sometimes also called the Young–Laplace–Gauss equation

Updated: October 22, 2026
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Institut Pierre Simon Laplace

The Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (Pierre Simon Laplace Institute) is a French organization made up of 9 laboratories (CEREA, GEOPS, LATMOS, LERMA:TASQ

Updated: September 20, 2025
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List of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace

after Pierre-Simon Laplace de Moivre-Laplace theorem that approximates binomial distribution with a normal distribution Laplace–Bayes estimator Laplace distribution

Updated: January 9, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Laplace's_equation

Laplace's equation

mathematics and physics, Laplace's equation is a second-order partial differential equation named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, who first studied its properties

Updated: May 7, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Laplace–Beltrami_operator

Laplace–Beltrami operator

after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami. For any twice-differentiable real-valued function f defined on Euclidean space Rn, the Laplace operator

Updated: September 2, 2026
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Traité de mécanique céleste

mechanics") is a five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and published from 1798 to 1825 with a second edition in 1829. In

Updated: April 13, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Laplace_expansion

Laplace expansion

In linear algebra, the Laplace expansion, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, also called cofactor expansion, is an expression of the determinant of an

Updated: June 1, 2026
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Laplace distribution

theory and statistics, the Laplace distribution is a continuous probability distribution named after Pierre-Simon Laplace. It is also sometimes called

Updated: September 2, 2026