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Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 March 1749
- Died
- 5 March 1827, 4 March 1827
- Place of birth
- Beaumont-en-Auge
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Pierre-Simon
- Family name
- Laplace
- Field of work
- celestial mechanics, probability theory, mathematical analysis, mathematics, mechanics, astronomy
- Occupation
- mathematician, astronomer, physicist, politician, philosopher, university teacher, theoretical physicist, statistician, writer
- Position held
- Pair of France, member of the Sénat conservateur, Minister of the Interior of France, president, seat 8 of the Académie française, president of the French Academy of Sciences, president of the French Academy of Sciences
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Awards
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Reunion, Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
- academic thesis
- Recherches sur le calcul intégral aux différences infiniment petites, et aux différences finies
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Catholic Encyclopedia, The New Student's Reference Work, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- doctoral advisor
- Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- doctoral student
- Siméon Denis Poisson, Jean-Baptiste Biot
- educated at
- University of Caen Normandy
- employer
- École normale, Bureau des Longitudes, Institut de France, École Militaire, French Academy of Sciences
- has works in the collection
- ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- influenced by
- Leonhard Euler
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Royal Society, Société Philomathique de Paris, Académie Française, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Société de Géographie, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- name in native language
- Pierre Simon Laplace
- notable work
- Laplace operator, Laplace transform, Laplace's equation, Laplace's demon, Laplace expansion, Laplace distribution, Laplace number, Laplace plane, Laplace's method, Laplace–Beltrami operator, Laplace's approximation, Mécanique Céleste
- number of children
- 2
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery, Saint-Julien-de-Mailloc, Q110331480
- residence
- Lower Normandy, Arcueil
- student of
- Christophe Gadbled
- topic's main category
- Category:Pierre-Simon Laplace
- writing language
- French
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Traité de mécanique céleste
- Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
- Exposition du système du monde
- Mécanique Céleste
- Analytic Theory of Probability
- Elementary illustrations of the Celestial mechanics of Laplace part the first, comprehending the first book
- Mémoire sur les approximations des formules qui sont fonctions de très grands nombres
- Analytic Theory of Probability
- Leçons de mathématiques données à l'École normale, en 1795, par M. Laplace
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