Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace as Chancellor of the Senate under the First French Empire
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a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy.
Born
23 March 1749 Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, Kingdom of France
Died
5 March 1827 (aged 77) Paris, Kingdom of France
Nationality
French
Known for
Work in celestial mechanics Predicting the existence of black holes Bayesian inference Bayesian probability Laplace's equation Laplacian Laplace transform Inverse Laplace transform Laplace distribution
Fields
Astronomy and Mathematics
Alma mater
University of Caen
Institutions
École Militaire (1769–1776)
Academic advisors
Jean d'Alembert Christophe Gadbled Pierre Le Canu
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France
era
1600-1800
Notable students
Siméon Denis Poisson Napoleon Bonaparte