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Pierre-Simon Laplace (13,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Peter Simon Pallas (1,729 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural

Laplace's demon (1,452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows

Beaumont-en-Auge (151 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The town hosts one of the last kaleidoscope manufacturers in France. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, physicist, astronomer and philosopher

Laplace operator (4,504 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

f (p). The Laplace operator is named after the French mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), who first applied the operator to the study of

Laplace distribution (3,065 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laplace distribution is a continuous probability distribution named after Pierre-Simon Laplace. It is also sometimes called the double exponential distribution

Laplace's equation (5,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equation is a second-order partial differential equation named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, who first studied its properties. This is often written as ∇

Pierre-Simon Ballanche (968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Simon Ballanche (4 August 1776 – 12 June 1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that

Gravitational field (1,307 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concept, gravity was a force between point masses. Following Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace attempted to model gravity as some kind of radiation field or

Bitstream Charter (534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

designed by Matthew Carter in 1987 for Bitstream Inc. Charter is based on Pierre-Simon Fournier’s characters, originating from the 18th century. Classified

Variance gamma process (1,594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In the theory of stochastic processes, a part of the mathematical theory of probability, the variance gamma (VG) process, also known as Laplace motion

Bayesian probability (3,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

analysis using what is now known as Bayesian inference.: 131 Mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace pioneered and popularized what is now called Bayesian probability

Young–Laplace equation (2,067 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

who developed the qualitative theory of surface tension in 1805, and Pierre-Simon Laplace who completed the mathematical description in the following year

Washington Before Boston Medal (231 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

appointed to prepare a letter of thanks and a proper device for the medal. Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier was commissioned to design and engrave the medal. Creating

Pierre-Simon Girard (422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Simon Girard (4 November 1765 – 30 November 1836) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluid mechanics. Girard was born in Caen

Boydell Shakespeare Gallery (8,930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nothing, Act III, scene 1 by Jean-Pierre Simon after Matthew Peters Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene 1 by Jean-Pierre Simon after William Hamilton Much

Fournier MT (168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to typefaces which are based on the typefaces of Parisian typefounder Pierre-Simon Fournier around the 1740s. Created in the Rococo style and influenced

Bayesian statistics (2,395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

several papers spanning from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries, Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Bayesian interpretation of probability. Laplace

Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (3 November 1730 – 10 July 1819) was a French engraver of coins and medals. Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier was born in

Laplace plane (746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laplacian plane of a planetary satellite, named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), is a mean or reference plane about whose axis the

Promontorium Laplace (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the northeast boundary of the bay of Sinus Iridum. It is named after Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, an 18th-century French astronomer, mathematician

Patrick Nève (185 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Patrick Marie Ghislain Pierre Simon Stanislas Nève de Mévergnies (13 October 1949 – 12 March 2017) was a Belgian racing driver. He participated in 14 Formula

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (2,269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Similar statements were made by figures such as Thomas Jefferson in 1808, Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814, and Théodore Flournoy in 1899. The formulation "Extraordinary

1776 in France (170 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Germain, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1831) 4 August – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (died 1847) Peter

1836 in France (275 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

September - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, botanist (born 1748) 30 November - Pierre-Simon Girard, mathematician and engineer (born 1765) Crecelius, Kathryn J.;

Siméon Denis Poisson (4,390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Polytechnique, recognized his talent early on, and became his friend. Meanwhile, Pierre-Simon Laplace, in whose footsteps Poisson followed, regarded him almost as

Joseph Nicollet (1,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-le-Grand, and a professor and astronomer at the Paris Observatory with Pierre-Simon Laplace. Political and academic changes in France led Nicollet to travel

1847 in France (327 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, Marshal of France, (born 1766) 12 June - Pierre-Simon Ballanche, writer and philosopher (born 1776) 13 September - Nicolas

Classical definition of probability (1,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interpretation of probability is identified with the works of Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace. As stated in Laplace's Théorie analytique des probabilités,

Laplace transform (9,414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In mathematics, the Laplace transform, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/), is an integral transform that converts a function of a real variable

University of Caen Normandy (575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

June 1957. Its logo, the mythical Phoenix, symbolises this revival. Pierre-Simon de Laplace Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Caspar Barlaeus Urbain Le Verrier

Punchcutting (2,568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the market with high-quality typefaces cut in the previous century; Pierre-Simon Fournier commented that knowledge of the technique in France degenerated

Bureau des Longitudes (707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

members of its founding board were: Joseph-Louis Lagrange, geometer; Pierre-Simon Laplace, geometer; Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, astronomer; Pierre

Being Human (North American TV series) (2,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Hubert, Marie-Ève Bédard-Tremblay, Carl Gagnon, Jean-Francois Lafleur, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Mario Rachiele Nominated 2012 ASCAP Film and Television

1827 in France (522 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Augustin Louis de Caulaincourt, General and diplomat (born 1773) 5 March - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician and astronomer (born 1749) 5 March - Charles du

Gram–Schmidt process (4,420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The method is named after Jørgen Pedersen Gram and Erhard Schmidt, but Pierre-Simon Laplace had been familiar with it before Gram and Schmidt. In the theory

Laplace–Beltrami operator (3,344 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

generally, on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is named after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami. For any twice-differentiable real-valued

Société de Géographie (641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

founders were some of the greatest scientific names of the time, including Pierre-Simon Laplace (the Society's first president), Georges Cuvier, Charles Pierre

List of mathematical probabilists (553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

economics Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959) Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Gregory Lawler (born 1955) Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)

Lagrange reversion theorem (879 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his solution used cumbersome series expansions of logarithms. In 1780, Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) published a simpler proof of the theorem, which was

Pascale Braconnot (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scientist in the Climate and Environmental Sciences at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace. She was involved in writing the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment

List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1789 (213 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

physician Abraham Gotthelf Kastner (1719–1800), German mathematician Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827), French scholar Pierre François Andre Méchain (1744–1805)

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (268 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities is a work by Pierre-Simon Laplace on the mathematical theory of probability. The book consists of two parts, the

Traité de mécanique céleste (1,546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Laplace–Stieltjes transform (1,354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Laplace–Stieltjes transform, named for Pierre-Simon Laplace and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, is an integral transform similar to the Laplace transform

Yellow Vector (Ki no Taji Gen Shikousei) (156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

and 8 make references to physicist Erwin Schrödinger and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, respectively. Track 5 contains guest vocals from Mayumi Fujita

Global Carbon Project (1,835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the University of East Anglia, and Philippe Ciais of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (LSCE). Its executive director is Josep Canadell of Australia's

Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

accepted ideas than that of some of his contemporary thinkers, such as Pierre-Simon Laplace. Moreover, Kant's thought in this volume is strongly influenced

Laplace expansion (2,583 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Decimal time (4,636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

displayed decimal time until at least 1801. The mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace had a decimal watch made for him, and used decimal time in his

1814 in science (693 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

'Laplace's demon', an articulation of causal determinism, is published by Pierre-Simon Laplace. Joseph von Fraunhofer discovers the dark absorption lines in

Rhône's 2nd constituency (268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fogel-Jedidi 4,077 9.32 −7.57 NPA Raphaël Arnault 2,980 6.81 N/A REC Pierre Simon 2,438 5.57 N/A RN Sylvine Sintès 2,392 5.47 N/A PS Philippe Prieto**

Colva Roney-Dougal (311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

appearances on In Our Time about the mathematics of Emmy Noether and Pierre-Simon Laplace and on The Infinite Monkey Cage about the nature of infinity

Jean Duvivier (295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1752. Their sons included Pierre-Louis-Isaac (baptized 23 May 1727), Pierre-Simon-Benjamin (baptized 5 November 1730) and Thomas-Germain-Joseph (baptized

List of scientific laws named after people (100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

List of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace Mathematics Physics Probability Theory Statistical mechanics Pierre-Simon Laplace Le Chatelier's principle

Caloric theory (2,159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

one of the greatest apparent confirmations of the caloric theory was Pierre-Simon Laplace's theoretical correction of Sir Isaac Newton’s calculation of

Rings of Saturn (13,775 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Saturn's rings are made up of a series of tiny ringlets can be traced to Pierre-Simon Laplace, although true gaps are few – it is more correct to think of

Christophe Gadbled (103 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in Saint-Martin-le-Bouillant. He is known to have been the mentor of Pierre-Simon Laplace. He died in Caen. Exposé des quelques unes des vérités rigoureusement

LaplacesDemon (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which refers to a hypothetical being capable of predicting the universe. Pierre-Simon Laplace alluded to this hypothetical being in the introduction to his

Mechanism (philosophy) (4,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot. The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications of the mechanist thesis, writing:

Leonhard Euler (10,965 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

importance in the field as shown by quotes attributed to many of them: Pierre-Simon Laplace expressed Euler's influence on mathematics by stating, "Read

Formation and evolution of the Solar System (13,498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Its subsequent development has interwoven a variety of scientific

Laplace–Carson transform (226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In mathematics, the Laplace–Carson transform, named after Pierre Simon Laplace and John Renshaw Carson, is an integral transform with significant applications

GEISA (286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-France) at IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) for its technical part. Currently, GEISA is involved in activities

Society of Arcueil (1,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

between 1806 and 1822 at the country houses of Claude Louis Berthollet and Pierre Simon Laplace at Arcueil, then a village 3 miles south of Paris. In 1807, when

Spherical harmonics (12,423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

known as Laplace's spherical harmonics, as they were first introduced by Pierre Simon de Laplace in 1782. These functions form an orthogonal system, and are

Simon Grany (44 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Simon Grany (23 January 1899 – 21 November 1988) was a French track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he finished

Information (4,713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

positing a fully predictable universe described by classical physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace as "the effect of its past and the cause of its future". Quantum

Thermochemistry (788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782–83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes; calculations

Laplacian matrix (5,041 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

discrete Laplacian, is a matrix representation of a graph. Named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, the graph Laplacian matrix can be viewed as a matrix form of

Hervé Le Treut (563 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was director of the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute (2008-2019). He entered the École normale supérieure

Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory (154 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

climate and in particular climate change. It is part of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, and located on campuses in l'Orme des Merisiers and Gif-sur-Yvette

STS-45 (585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Spacefacts. Retrieved March 4, 2014. "Background". SOLSPEC. Institut Pierre Simon Laplace. Retrieved March 26, 2022. STS-45 Video Highlights Archived October

Black hole (18,724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild found the first modern solution

1749 (2,954 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

March 10 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838) March 23 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer (d. 1827) March 23 – Ulla von

Deep-sea exploration (4,384 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

deep-sea exploration can be said to have begun when French scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace investigated the average depth of the Atlantic Ocean by observing

Association for Symbolic Logic (1,168 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Grigor Sargsyan 2010 Uri Andrews 2011 Mingzhong Cai and Adam Day 2012 Pierre Simon 2013 Artem Chernikov and Nathanaël Mariaule 2014 no prize awarded 2015

Nathaniel Bowditch (1,890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

many significant scientific contributions would be a translation of Pierre-Simon de Laplace's Mécanique céleste, a lengthy work on mathematics and theoretical

Sunrise problem (861 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his famous coverage of Thomas Bayes' foundational work in Bayesianism. Pierre-Simon Laplace, who treated it by means of his rule of succession. Let p be

Charles Coulston Gillispie (1,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2014). 2014 pbk reprint. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400855209. Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Life in Exact Science, 1997 LCCN 97-8331 ISBN 0691011850

Charles Coulston Gillispie (1,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

2014). 2014 pbk reprint. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400855209. Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Life in Exact Science, 1997 LCCN 97-8331 ISBN 0691011850

Vis viva (944 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

motion was another form of vis viva. In 1783, Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace reviewed the two competing theories of vis viva and caloric theory

Simon Petru Cristofini (389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cristofini (1903–1943), also known as Pietro Simone Cristofini (French: Pierre Simon Cristofini), was a Corsican soldier who commanded the Phalange Africaine

STS-56 (627 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Report). NASA. Retrieved December 4, 2024. "Background". SOLSPEC. Institut Pierre Simon Laplace. Retrieved March 11, 2022. Legler, Robert D.; Bennett, Floyd

Experimental physics (1,761 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1733–1804) William Herschel (1738–1822) Alessandro Volta (1745–1827) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814) John Dalton (1766–1844)

List of French astronomers (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lalande Michel Lefrançois de Lalande André Lallemand Félix Chemla Lamèch Pierre-Simon Laplace Jacques Laskar Marguerite Laugier Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier

Eric Guilyardi (78 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University of Reading and directeur de recherche CNRS at LOCEAN at Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) in Paris. He is an expert of the El Niño phenomenon. He

Rule of succession (4,806 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the rule of succession is a formula introduced in the 18th century by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the course of treating the sunrise problem. The formula is

Battle of Halberstadt (824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

division before engaging the Brunswickers. The 5th Infantry, led by Colonel Pierre Simon Mayronnet (Count Wellingerode), reached Halberstadt at 11 am on 29 July

Capillary action (4,216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

until 1805 by two investigators: Thomas Young of the United Kingdom and Pierre-Simon Laplace of France. They derived the Young–Laplace equation of capillary

Acta Eruditorum (556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Humphry Ditton, Leonhard Euler, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Jérôme Lalande, but also from humanists and philosophers

Lomevactone (279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Axiotis, S. et al, Eur. J. Med. Chem.-Chim. Ther., 1981, 16, 431, 439. Pierre Simon & Jacques Dreux, U.S. patent 4,287,206 (1981 to Sanofi Aventis France)

List of public art in Mayfair (1,284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Finally, Adam Smith, John Locke, Francis Bacon, John Hunter

Antoine Augustin Cournot (990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

after him. Cournot worked on determinism (in physics) and chance. Unlike Pierre-Simon de Laplace, who thought that nothing happens by chance, and Aristotle

God Created the Integers (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Euclid Archimedes Diophantus René Descartes Isaac Newton Leonhard Euler Pierre-Simon Laplace Joseph Fourier Carl Friedrich Gauss Augustin-Louis Cauchy Nikolai

History of statistics (7,628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

{\displaystyle f(x)={\frac {1}{2}}{\sqrt {(1-x^{2})}}} with -1 < x < 1. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1774) made the first attempt to deduce a rule for the combination

Lagrange-class submarine (556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The ships were named after French scholars: Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Henri Victor Regnault and the constructor of submarines Gaston

Mike Worman (260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mid 1970s until its closure in 2000 (with his last credited role being Pierre Simon in Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn). Aside from his acting career, Worman also

Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Effects (229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David Raymond, Jonathan Legris, Josée Chapdelaine, Louis-Alexandre Lord, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Sarah Neveu Louis Cyr Annie Normandin, Dominic Daigle

Coupon collector's problem (2,099 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

n\cdot P[{Z}_{1}^{\beta n\log n}]\leq n^{-\beta +1}.\end{aligned}}} Pierre-Simon Laplace, but also Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi, proved the limit theorem

Charlotte Sans (178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the face, which was inspired by the types of 18th-century punch-cutter Pierre-Simon Fournier. Friedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography:

Expected value (7,614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Expectation is worth (a+b)/2. More than a hundred years later, in 1814, Pierre-Simon Laplace published his tract "Théorie analytique des probabilités", where

Orpheus (Liszt) (591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

have been derived from the Orpheus depicted by the French philosopher Pierre-Simon Ballanche in Orphée in 1829. By introducing civilised laws, the Orpheus

Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector (10,211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in the same two points. The Laplace–Runge–Lenz vector is named after Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Runge and Wilhelm Lenz. It is also known as the Laplace

Antoine Lavoisier (9,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

weights and measures on 23 December 1793, together with mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace and several other members, for political reasons. One of his

Long-period tides (1,625 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

changing distance of the Earth relative to Sun, Moon, and Jupiter by Pierre-Simon de Laplace in the 18th century showed that the periods at which gravity

List of complex analysis topics (399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jordan Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Eugène Rouché Gerardus Mercator Joseph Liouville Pierre-Simon Laplace August Ferdinand Möbius William Kingdon Clifford

Fountains in Paris (10,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Bridges and Highways and head of his service of water and sewers, Pierre Simon Girard, who had served with him on his campaign in Egypt. Girard's grand

French submarine Laplace (513 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1921. It was named in honor of the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. From 1922 to 1923, Laplace underwent a major refit in which

Hermite polynomials (10,041 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

matrix theory in Gaussian ensembles. Hermite polynomials were defined by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1810, though in scarcely recognizable form, and studied in

Bayes' theorem (7,641 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to population and computing 'life-annuities'. Independently of Bayes, Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1774, and later in his 1812 Théorie analytique des probabilités

Least squares (5,586 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tobias Mayer while studying the librations of the Moon in 1750, and by Pierre-Simon Laplace in his work in explaining the differences in motion of Jupiter

Polymath (4,414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edison, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Young, Sequoyah, Thomas Jefferson, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Friedrich Engels, Satyajit Ray and William Whewell. Aside from

French Statistical Society (431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laurent-Duhamel for a PhD thesis from a French speaking statistician. Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace awarded every three years to an accomplished French-speaking

The Laplace's Demon (376 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by the causal determinism concept of the same name as formulated by Pierre-Simon Laplace and free will plays a central role in the plot. The Laplace's

Euler's three-body problem (3,161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

contributed subsequently by Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Joseph Liouville, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Urbain Le Verrier, William Rowan Hamilton

Henry Hickman Harte (219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and 2 of Pierre-Simon Laplace's "System of the World" (1830), translated and with commentary by Harte Title page to Volume 1 of Pierre-Simon Laplace's

Philippe Ciais (1,146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

l'Environnement (LSCE), the climate change research unit of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL). He is a physicist working on the global carbon cycle

Calorimeter (3,848 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ice calorimeters was used in the winter of 1782–83 by Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace. It relied on the heat required for the melting of ice to measure

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (12,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

it as "the greatest production of a human mind", and French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace stated that "The Principia is pre-eminent above any other production

UPMC Hamot (626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hospital Association on February 7, 1881. The hospital was named after Pierre Simon Vincent Hamot, a successful French businessman who had settled in Erie

French Congo (1,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alix Jean Marchessou (acting) (b. 1879 - d. 1964) 4 Dec 1930 - May 1931 Pierre Simon Antonin Bonnefont (acting) (b. 1877 - d. 1950) May 1931 - 1932 Max de

P-value (6,996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

details at Sign test § History. The same question was later addressed by Pierre-Simon Laplace, who instead used a parametric test, modeling the number of male

Daniel Bernoulli (1,583 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica and the investigations of Pierre-Simon Laplace. Bernoulli also wrote a large number of papers on various mechanical

1749 in science (325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

February 7 - Philippe Petit-Radel, French surgeon (died 1815) March 23 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827) May 17 – Edward

Science and technology in Switzerland (1,179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

century and one of the greatest of all time. A statement attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace expresses Euler's influence on mathematics: "Read Euler, read

1902 in philosophy (101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome". Pierre-Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (English translation:

Invariable plane (874 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

work of (and are at least sometimes named for) the French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace. The two are equivalent only in the case where all perturbers

Outline of black holes (2,505 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

geologist who first proposed the idea "dark stars" in 1783 Dark star Pierre-Simon Laplace – early mathematical theorist (1796) of the idea of black holes

1902 in philosophy (101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with special reference to his monumental work, A history of Rome". Pierre-Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (English translation:

Jacques Doillon (1,016 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

accuses directors of historical abuse". BBC news. 8 February 2024. Pierre, Simon (9 February 2024). "Affaire Judith Godrèche : le festival de cinéma

Fluid mechanics (2,654 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

various mathematicians (Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Siméon Denis Poisson) and viscous flow was explored by a multitude

1730 in art (555 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1795) November 3 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (died 1819) date

Timeline of classical mechanics (1,951 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

presents Lagrange's equations of motion in the Méchanique Analytique 1798 - Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his Traité de mécanique céleste vol.1 and lasts vol

Mechanician (514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

principle, Wave equation Joseph Louis Lagrange: Lagrangian mechanics Pierre-Simon Laplace: effects of surface tension Sophie Germain: elasticity Siméon

Graviton (2,306 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mediation of the gravitational interaction by particles was anticipated by Pierre-Simon Laplace. Just like Newton's anticipation of photons, Laplace's anticipated

Franz Xaver von Zach (836 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

London he entered the circles of astronomers like Joseph de Lalande, Pierre-Simon Laplace and William Herschel. In 1786 he was appointed by Ernest II,

Celestial mechanics (2,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

little later with Gottfried Leibniz, and over a century after Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace introduced the term celestial mechanics. Prior to Kepler, there

Gravitational acceleration (1,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concept, gravity was a force between point masses. Following Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace attempted to model gravity as some kind of radiation field or

Lucien Bonaparte (1,585 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Interior In office 25 December 1799 – 7 November 1800 Preceded by Pierre-Simon Laplace Succeeded by Jean-Antoine Chaptal President of the Council of

List of members of the Académie française (5,848 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

poet Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval, 1812–1842, poet and playwright Pierre-Simon Ballanche, 1842–1847, philosopher Jean Vatout, 1848, poet Alexis Guignard

Timeline of machine learning (1,501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Didot. p. viii. Retrieved 13 June 2016. O'Connor, J J; Robertson, E F. "Pierre-Simon Laplace". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews

Laplace's method (7,167 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In mathematics, Laplace's method, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is a technique used to approximate integrals of the form ∫ a b e M f ( x ) d x , {\displaystyle

2nd Canadian Screen Awards (246 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David Raymond, Jonathan Legris, Josée Chapdelaine, Louis-Alexandre Lord, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput and Sarah Neveu, Louis Cyr Aaron Weintraub, Ayo Burgess

Perrine Simon-Nahum (395 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1960) is a contemporary French historian. She is the daughter of Pr Pierre Simon. Holder of a doctorate in history (1989), Simon-Nahum is responsible

Ensemble averaging (machine learning) (912 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

bias–variance tradeoff. The idea of combining experts can be traced back to Pierre-Simon Laplace. The theory mentioned above gives an obvious strategy: create

1799 in science (968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

by defeating over 10,000 Ottoman Mamluk troops under Mustafa Pasha. Pierre-Simon Laplace begins publication of Méchanique céleste. Thomas Beddoes makes

Dark star (Newtonian mechanics) (1,110 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

was correct or just academic thoroughness. In 1796, the mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace promoted the same idea in the first and second editions of his

French Consulate (2,615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

18 May 1804 Joseph Fouché Interior 12 November 1799 25 December 1799 Pierre-Simon Laplace 25 December 1799 21 January 1801 Lucien Bonaparte 21 January

Normal distribution (22,485 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Public Policy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852341-3. Laplace, Pierre-Simon de (1774). "Mémoire sur la probabilité des causes par les événements"

1782 in science (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein. Winter 1782–83 – Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace begin to use the world's first ice calorimeter to determine the

Probability theory (3,582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

David Williams, "Probability with martingales", Cambridge 1991/2008 Pierre Simon de Laplace (1812). Analytical Theory of Probability. The first major

Arcueil (803 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

treatment of radioactive elements. Jean-Paul Gaultier, fashion designer. Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Henri

Debevoise & Plimpton (1,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Katz, CNET, March 30, 2018. Retrieved March 7, 2020. Valérie Peiffer; Pierre Simon; Pascal Mateo (16 December 2010). "Edouard Philippe de A à Z". Le Point

University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (5,134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

management science, law and political science. The Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace Institut), a research institute in global environmental

Exploration of Io (10,769 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Based on ephemerides produced by astronomer Giovanni Cassini and others, Pierre-Simon Laplace created a mathematical theory to explain the resonant orbits

Pierre (1,162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Grand Army Pierre (disambiguation) French submarine Pierre Chailley Pierre-Simon Jean-Pierre (given name) Lucky Pierre (disambiguation) Saint-Pierre (disambiguation)

1827 (2,438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter, engraver (b. 1748) March 5 Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749) Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist

Joseph Jouthe (234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant Jean-Michel Lapin (acting) Preceded by Pierre Simon George Succeeded by Abner September Personal details Born (1961-10-17)

Causality (physics) (2,138 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

by earlier ones according to the known laws of nature, culminating in Pierre-Simon Laplace's claim that if the current state of the world were known with

Grande Loge de France (2,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

person. In the 1960s and 1970s its Grand Master, Doctor Pierre Simon (physician) [fr; Pierre Simon] played a key role in the elaboration of the law on contraception

1825 in science (921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Pierre-Simon Laplace completes his study of gravitation, the stability of the Solar

Cornelis Bloemaert (477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lambert Visscher, Charles de La Haye, Jean Gerardin, François Spierre and Pierre Simon. He died in Rome where he was buried on 28 September 1692. Cornelis Bloemaert

Determinism (11,681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d'Holbach (Paul Heinrich Dietrich), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert

Alexis Bouvard (286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

after starting there as a student astronomer in 1793 and working under Pierre-Simon Laplace. He died in Paris. Member Académie des sciences (1803); Fellow

Dispersion relation (1,903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

not match Newton's own. Dispersion of waves on water was studied by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1776. The universality of the Kramers–Kronig relations (1926–27)

Mary Somerville (5,597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wallace suggested that she study the writings of French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, which summarised the theory of gravity and collected the mathematical

November 4 (4,539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

– Augustus Toplady, English cleric and hymn writer (d. 1778) 1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836) 1787 – Edmund Kean

Thomas Gaskin (484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

remembered for his work on the equation for the figure of the Earth, of Pierre-Simon Laplace. While it was important for geodesy, from a Cambridge point of

François Arago (3,579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of secretary to the Paris Observatory. He now became acquainted with Pierre-Simon Laplace, and through his influence was commissioned, with Jean-Baptiste

Light (6,345 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

sway during the eighteenth century. The particle theory of light led Pierre-Simon Laplace to argue that a body could be so massive that light could not

Lists of mathematics topics (2,591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

List of things named after Johann Lambert List of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace List of things named after Adrien-Marie Legendre List of things

1796 in science (853 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

year 1796 in science and technology involved some significant events. Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes Exposition du système du monde, his work on astronomy

Place de la République (1,172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Place du Château d'Eau, named after a huge fountain designed by Pierre-Simon Girard and built on the site in 1811. Émile de La Bédollière wrote that

Louis Cyr (film) (237 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

David Raymond, Jonathan Legris, Josée Chapdelaine, Louis-Alexandre Lord, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput and Sarah Neveu Nominated Jutra Awards 23 March 2014 Best

Schwarzschild radius (2,515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

light. It had been identified in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The Schwarzschild radius of an object is proportional to its

Probability (5,098 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The first two laws of error that were proposed both originated with Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first law was published in 1774, and stated that the frequency

Pierre Girard (72 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

to: Pierre Girard (cardinal) (died 1415), French bishop and Cardinal Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836), French mathematician and engineer Pierre Girard (painter)

Charles Babbage (12,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

professor at the University of Edinburgh, with the recommendation of Pierre Simon Laplace; the post went to William Wallace. With Herschel, Babbage worked

1827 in science (997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

German obstetrician. Henry Gray (died 1861), English anatomist. March 5 Pierre-Simon Laplace (born 1749), French mathematician. Alessandro Volta (born 1745)

List of scientific equations named after people (438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

equations Electromagnetism, Fluid dynamics Fluid dynamics Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon Laplace Legendre's equation Spherical harmonics Adrien-Marie

St Mary, Woodbridge Road (319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of East Anglia. St Mary's was founded by a French priest, Abbé Louis Pierre Simon, when he escaped from the threat of the French Revolution and settled

Statistical hypothesis test (10,172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1700s. The first use is credited to John Arbuthnot (1710), followed by Pierre-Simon Laplace (1770s), in analyzing the human sex ratio at birth; see § Human

Flood myth (4,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

other significant changes in the Earth to the effects of comets. In Pierre-Simon Laplace's book Exposition Du Systême Du Monde (The System of the World)

Perturbation theory (2,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

18th and 19th century mathematicians, notably Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to extend and generalize the methods of perturbation theory

Simon Holt (1,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Spettrale". Wise Music Classical. Retrieved 24 July 2020. "Fondation Prince Pierre, Simon Holt". Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. Retrieved 25 July 2020. "The

Jean-Pierre Darroussin (919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gautré & Pierre Pradinas Pierre Pradinas 1983 Les Amis de Monsieur Gazon Pierre & Simon Pradinas Pierre Pradinas 1986 The Seagull Anton Chekhov Pierre Pradinas

Demon (disambiguation) (1,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Laplace's demon (1814), articulation of causal or scientific determinism by Pierre-Simon Laplace Maxwell's demon, a concept by James Clerk Maxwell concerning

Statistical significance (4,060 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

significance dates to the 18th century, in the work of John Arbuthnot and Pierre-Simon Laplace, who computed the p-value for the human sex ratio at birth, assuming

Pope Callixtus III (2,136 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

posthumous biography and was subsequently embellished and popularized by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Callixtus III excommunicated the 1456 appearance of Halley's

Outline of the metric system (1,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1618–1694) Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) Pierre Méchain (1744–1804) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822) Adrien-Marie

John Pond (907 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published eight folio volumes of Greenwich Observations, translated Pierre-Simon Laplace's Système du monde and contributed thirty-one papers to scientific

19th-century philosophy (1,843 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the late Enlightenment that was influential in the 19th century was Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), whose formulation of nomological determinism is

Gravitational redshift (5,979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

light from high-gravity stars was predicted by John Michell in 1783 and Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796, using Isaac Newton's concept of light corpuscles (see:

Jean Sylvain Bailly (2,463 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his public life. In July 1793, Bailly left Nantes to join his friend Pierre-Simon Laplace at Melun, but was recognized there and arrested. On 14 October

George William Hill (1,083 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

treatises on mechanics and mathematical astronomy by Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Gustave de Pontécoulant. Hill graduated

Canal de l'Ourcq (1,254 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

taxes, and the first stone was laid on 23 September. Napoleon appointed Pierre-Simon Girard to direct the project and work was undertaken in January 1804

1819 in art (879 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver, lawyer and academic (born 1744) July 10 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (born 1730) July

Lexell's Comet (1,852 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

near-Earth object). After conducting further work in cooperation with Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lexell argued that a subsequent interaction with Jupiter in

1775 in science (838 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

improvements to the diving bell, adding a system of balance-weights. Pierre-Simon Girard, age 10, invents a water turbine. December 30 – John Arnold takes

Atmospheric thermodynamics (1,676 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1804 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac made balloon ascent to study weather 1805 Pierre Simon Laplace developed his law of pressure variation with height 1841 James

Nautilus (1800 submarine) (1,098 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

and modified the rudder.: 38 Through friends like Gaspard Monge and Pierre-Simon Laplace, Fulton obtained an interview with Napoleon, but was unable to

List of important publications in statistics (2,818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

teaching of statistics. Théorie analytique des probabilités Author: Pierre-Simon Laplace Publication data: 1820 (3rd ed.) Online version: Internet Archive;

Édouard Philippe (2,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the original on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 6 August 2017. Valérie Peiffer; Pierre Simon; Pascal Mateo (16 December 2010). "Edouard Philippe de A à Z". Le Point

Binomial distribution (7,542 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the rule of succession, which was introduced in the 18th century by Pierre-Simon Laplace. When relying on Jeffreys prior, the prior is Beta ⁡ ( α = 1

Absolute zero (4,636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

absolute zero were not, however, universally accepted about this period. Pierre-Simon Laplace and Antoine Lavoisier, in their 1780 treatise on heat, arrived

Joseph Black (2,517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782–83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes, calculations

Napoleon (19,441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

course in one year. In September he was examined by the famed scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace and became the first Corsican to graduate from the École militaire

List of philosophers born in the 18th century (1,452 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1765–1841) Charles Babbage, (1791–1871)[a][f] Samuel Bailey, (1791–1870)[f] Pierre-Simon Ballanche, (1776–1847) John Ballantyne, (1778–1830)[f] Christoph Gottfried

Biot–Savart law (3,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

method of retarded potentials. André-Marie Ampère James Clerk Maxwell Pierre-Simon Laplace Darwin Lagrangian "Biot–Savart law". Random House Webster's Unabridged

Gyroscope (5,958 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

similar device that was based on a rotating disc. The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, working at the École Polytechnique in Paris, recommended the

Hans Christian Ørsted (2,961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of such a telegraph was suggested almost immediately by mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace and Ampère presented a paper based on Laplace's idea the same

House of Hénin (636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1733–1797) married to Marie Anne Albertine Françoise van de Werve (1747–1810) Pierre-Simon de Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace (1772–1825) married to Charlotte Louise Henriette

March 23 (5,420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(d. 1777) 1732 – Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (d. 1800) 1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827) 1750 – Johannes

Probability interpretations (4,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

attempt at mathematical rigour in the field of probability, championed by Pierre-Simon Laplace, is now known as the classical definition. Developed from studies

Pascal Massart (235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the French Statistical Society in 2007 alongside Paul

Cathedral Cliff (547 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2020-12-04. Caroline Bélanger and Pierre-Simon Ross, Origin of nonbedded pyroclastic rocks in the Cathedral Cliff diatreme

Orbital resonance (10,257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Solar System has preoccupied many mathematicians, starting with Pierre-Simon Laplace. The stable orbits that arise in a two-body approximation ignore

Mathematical physics (5,477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Germany and England had contributed to mathematical physics. The French Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) made paramount contributions to mathematical astronomy

Roman Catholic Diocese of Moulins (1,996 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Constitutional Bishop (1798–1801) Antoine de La Grange de Pons 1822–1849 Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé 1850–1893 Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg 1893–1906

Julian day (6,424 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

every day in the year of issue. The French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace first expressed the time of day as a decimal fraction added to

Occam's razor (10,781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

also be recognized in the apocryphal story about an exchange between Pierre-Simon Laplace and Napoleon. It is said that in praising Laplace for one of

Tide (13,082 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

as the origin of the tide-generating forces. Newton and others before Pierre-Simon Laplace worked the problem from the perspective of a static system (equilibrium

History of Solar System formation and evolution hypotheses (8,744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

A similar hypothesis was independently formulated by the Frenchman Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1796. In 1749, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon conceived

Hydrostatic equilibrium (4,414 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

special case, for an oblate spheroid, of a connexion found later by Pierre-Simon Laplace between the shape and the variation of gravity. If the star has

1812 in science (981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

authorises the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the Metric System. Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes Théorie analytique des probabilités in which he lays

A Tally of Types (597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

roman and italic, based on the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier Barbou Roman, based on the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier Baskerville Roman and Italic, cut

Heat capacity ratio (2,318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

P (p. 9). Meanwhile, in 1816 the French mathematician and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace had found that the speed of sound depends on the ratio of the

Historic recurrence (7,411 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

sorts of events, or... event-types, -complexes, and -patterns." In 1814 Pierre-Simon Laplace published an early articulation of causal or scientific determinism:

Thomas Bayes (2,095 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

now called Bayesian, which was in fact pioneered and popularised by Pierre-Simon Laplace; it is difficult to assess Bayes's philosophical views on probability

Isaac Newton (16,213 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

follower Samuel Clarke in a famous correspondence. A century later, Pierre-Simon Laplace's work Celestial Mechanics had a natural explanation for why

List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower (617 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

hydraulic engineer NW07 CUVIER Georges Cuvier naturalist NW08 LAPLACE Pierre-Simon Laplace mathematician and astronomer NW09 DULONG Pierre Louis Dulong

Human sex ratio (7,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

trial with uneven odds. Willem 's Gravesande (1774) also studied it. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1778) used human sex ratio as an example in his development

Astronomy (10,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

planets. This work was further refined by Joseph-Louis Lagrange and Pierre Simon Laplace, allowing the masses of the planets and moons to be estimated

Control theory (6,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

historical figures made significant contribution to control theory including Pierre-Simon Laplace invented the Z-transform in his work on probability theory, now

Pope Leo XII (3,282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which strongly condemned vaccination to "an unverified citation" by Dr. Pierre Simon in Histoire et philosophie du contrôle des naissances. The response of

Principle of indifference (2,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The original writers on probability, primarily Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre Simon Laplace, considered the principle of indifference to be intuitively obvious

Sylvestre François Lacroix (933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1788, he taught courses at the École Royale d'Artillerie under examiner Pierre-Simon Laplace. The posting in Besançon lasted until 1793 when Lacroix returned

Robert Woodhouse (921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

book, containing an account of the treatment of physical astronomy by Pierre-Simon Laplace and other continental writers, was issued in 1818. Woodhouse

March 5 (6,068 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1815 – Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734) 1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749) 1827 – Alessandro

Girard (surname) (291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Girard, French engineer Philippe de Girard (1775–1845), French inventor Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836), French mathematician Raphael Girard (1898-1982),

Bayesian approaches to brain function (1,846 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bayesian probability has been developed by many important contributors. Pierre-Simon Laplace, Thomas Bayes, Harold Jeffreys, Richard Cox and Edwin Jaynes

1776 (5,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

cricketer (d. 1858) Friedrich Stromeyer, German chemist (d. 1835) August 4 – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (d. 1847)

Marcello Truzzi (2,499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Truzzi's remark is derived from the 18th century French mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace's "plus un fait est extraordinaire, plus il a besoin d'être

Rotating reference frame (3,828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in connection with hydrodynamics, and also in the tidal equations of Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1778. Early in the 20th century, the term Coriolis force began

Phylogenetics (6,946 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

interpretations of probability as an amount of epistemic confidence. 18th century, Pierre Simon (Marquis de Laplace), perhaps first to use ML (maximum likelihood), precursor

Andrei Mironov (activist) (1,826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Yevgeniya Mironova, and two brothers, Alexander and Alexei Mironov. 2008 – Pierre Simon prize for ethics and society. Awarded annually under the auspices of

Conservation of energy (6,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

friction was another form of vis viva. In 1783, Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace reviewed the two competing theories of vis viva and caloric theory

Probability space (3,568 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1999). Probability theory: an analytic view. Cambridge University Press. Pierre Simon de Laplace (1812) Analytical Theory of Probability The first major treatise

Thomas Young (scientist) (4,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

two principles to deduce the phenomena of capillary action. In 1805, Pierre-Simon Laplace, the French philosopher, discovered the significance of meniscus

Dream (8,990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Woman having a nightmare. Jean-Pierre Simon (1764–1810 or 1813).

Irénée-Jules Bienaymé (746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

began with Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, then carried on with Pierre-Simon Laplace and Siméon Denis Poisson. His personal life was marked by bad

Le Jeune Werther (112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mirabelle Rousseau as Mirabelle Miren Capello as Miren Pierre Mezerette as Pierre Simon Clavière as Simon Sunny Lebrati as Sunny Thomas Brémond as Theo Pierre

Jean le Rond d'Alembert (2,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Encyclopédie Three-body problem Awards ForMemRS (1748) Scientific career Fields Mathematics Mechanics Physics Philosophy Notable students Pierre-Simon Laplace

Caen (4,647 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

apothecary Louis Lépecq de La Clôture (1736–1804), surgeon and epidemiologist Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1836), mathematician and engineer, worked on fluid mechanics

Blaise Pascal (7,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

continued the development of the theory include Abraham de Moivre and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The work done by Fermat and Pascal into the calculus of probabilities

Theophilos Kairis (1,701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

had written on complex themes, including on mathematical extensions of Pierre-Simon Laplace's Celestial Mechanics. Artifacts that demonstrate Kairis philosophic

Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1,924 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the German writer Melchior Grimm, the mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon de Laplace, the chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, the composers Pierre-Alexandre

The War of the Worlds (6,862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

planets written close to 1900 echo scientific ideas of the time, including Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebular hypothesis, Charles Darwin's scientific theory of natural

Sampling (statistics) (7,519 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

lots is an old idea, mentioned several times in the Bible. In 1786, Pierre Simon Laplace estimated the population of France by using a sample, along with

Juliette Récamier (1,672 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Prince Augustus of Prussia (whose marriage proposal she rejected), Pierre-Simon Ballanche, Jean-Jacques Ampère, and Benjamin Constant, none of them obtained

History of mathematics (16,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

algebra, differential calculus, and the calculus of variations, and Pierre-Simon Laplace, who, in the age of Napoleon, did important work on the foundations

Johann Karl Burckhardt (491 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reputation. In 1812 he published an improved lunar theory, after that of Pierre-Simon Laplace. Burckhardt's lunar tables appear to have been the first to be

Carl Sagan (15,310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Flournoy's work From India to the Planet Mars (1899) from a longer quote by Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), a French mathematician and astronomer, as the Principle

Buryats (6,328 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

PMC 7993749. PMID 33618348. Ethnic groups — Buryats J.G. Gruelin, Siberia. Pierre Simon Pallas, Sammlungen historischer Nachrichten über die mongolischen Volkerschaften

Convolution (8,751 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1797–1800. Soon thereafter, convolution operations appear in the works of Pierre Simon Laplace, Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Siméon Denis Poisson, and others

Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests (794 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dupuit Augustin-Jean Fresnel Charles de Freycinet Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac Pierre-Simon Girard Philippe LeBon Joseph Liouville Étienne-Louis Malus Pierre Méchain

Positivism (8,387 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

scientific methods to other fields. Thinkers such as Henri de Saint-Simon, Pierre-Simon Laplace and Auguste Comte believed that the scientific method, the circular

Uranus (15,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Earth. The orbital elements of Uranus were first calculated in 1783 by Pierre-Simon Laplace. With time, discrepancies began to appear between predicted and

Gambler's fallacy (5,490 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

predictions of the future, but also our perceptions of the past." In 1796, Pierre-Simon Laplace described in A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities the ways

Uranus (15,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Earth. The orbital elements of Uranus were first calculated in 1783 by Pierre-Simon Laplace. With time, discrepancies began to appear between predicted and

Newton's laws of motion (15,389 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of rigid bodies and established the basic theory of fluid dynamics. Pierre-Simon Laplace's five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1798–1825) forsook

Johannes Diderik van der Waals (3,021 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

contrast to the mechanical perspective on the subject provided earlier by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Van der Waals took a thermodynamic approach. This was controversial

Western world (15,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexis-Claude Clairaut, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon de Laplace. Laplace's five-volume Treatise on Celestial Mechanics is

Logarithm (11,614 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

critical to advances in surveying, celestial navigation, and other domains. Pierre-Simon Laplace called logarithms "...[a]n admirable artifice which, by reducing

Thermodynamic free energy (4,056 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

which liberate heat. In addition to this, in 1780 Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace laid the foundations of thermochemistry by showing that the heat

François Zimeray (3,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ambassador comes face to face with man's inhumanity to man" was granted the Pierre Simon Ethics and geopolitics prize in Paris City hall. (Plon, Paris 2016) In

Lewis OfMan (1,513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lewis Pierre Simon Delhomme, known professionally as Lewis OfMan, is a French record producer, musician, singer and songwriter from Paris, France. He's

Tropical year (4,354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematical tools came together in the 18th century due to the work of Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Joseph Louis Lagrange, and other specialists in celestial

Action at a distance (3,386 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

model. As mathematical methods improved, especially through the work of Pierre-Simon Laplace, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Siméon Denis Poisson, more sophisticated

Jean Jouzel (547 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

laboratory. From 2001 to 2008 he was director of the IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace), a major federative laboratory on climate research in the Paris

Bayesian inference (8,972 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

could be placed on an unknown event.[citation needed] However, it was Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) who introduced (as Principle VI) what is now called

Young's interference experiment (2,080 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

corpuscular theory which, nonetheless, had many eminent supporters, including Pierre-Simon Laplace and Jean-Baptiste Biot. While studying medicine at Göttingen

Leonid Hurwicz (3,814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

functions that year. Hurwicz combined Wald's ideas with work done in 1812 by Pierre-Simon Laplace. Hurwicz's criterion gives each decision a value which is "a

James Jeans (2,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

evolution. His analysis of rotating bodies led him to conclude that Pierre-Simon Laplace's theory that the solar system formed from a single cloud of

2021 Cannes Film Festival (1,658 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

filmmaker and photographer Laurent Dailland, French director of photography Pierre-Simon Gutman, French critic Sameh Alaa, Egyptian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania

Joseph-Louis Lagrange (6,146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paris: Firmin Didot. pp. xxvii–lxxx. Lagrange, Joseph-Louis; Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1795). "Mathématiques". Séances des écoles normales, recueillies par

Graham Farmelo (1,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

physicists, natural philosophers and mathematicians, notably Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein and Paul Dirac, before

Outline of astronomy (3,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacobus Kapteyn Johannes Kepler Gerard Kuiper Joseph-Louis Lagrange Pierre-Simon Laplace Henrietta Leavitt Isaac Newton Edward C. Pickering Ptolemy Henry

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors (13,587 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

characteristic equation. Later, Joseph Fourier used the work of Lagrange and Pierre-Simon Laplace to solve the heat equation by separation of variables in his

Duvivier (161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

French film director Marthe Duvivier (1850–?), French opera singer Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (1730–1819), French engraver of coins and medals Paul

Dispersion (water waves) (3,373 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

phase velocity. The full linear dispersion relation was first found by Pierre-Simon Laplace, although there were some errors in his solution for the linear

Central limit theorem (8,862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

time, and was nearly forgotten until the famous French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace rescued it from obscurity in his monumental work Théorie analytique

William Lowthian Green (1,649 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ideas on the formation of the Earth, based on the nebular hypothesis of Pierre-Simon Laplace, shocked the local conservatives who literally believed in creation

Tidal acceleration (4,749 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

values from about 10″ to nearly 13″ being derived about a century later. Pierre-Simon Laplace produced in 1786 a theoretical analysis giving a basis on which

The Drunkard's Walk (204 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

discusses the contributions of mathematical heavyweights Jacob Bernoulli, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Blaise Pascal, and introduces basic statistical concepts

St. Petersburg paradox (3,951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Decision (2 ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Laplace, Pierre Simon (1814). Théorie analytique des probabilités [Analytical theory of probabilities]

Mécanique analytique (535 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

developments of contributors such as Alexis Clairaut, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Leonhard Euler, and Johann and Jacob Bernoulli in the historical

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (4,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and it was presented at that time to the French Academy of Sciences by Pierre-Simon Girard. Girard also published a praiseful but rather broad review of

Wave power (6,156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

patent to extract energy from ocean waves was in 1799, filed in Paris by Pierre-Simon Girard and his son. An early device was constructed around 1910 by Bochaux-Praceique

Maximum likelihood estimation (9,702 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

well-conditioned. Early users of maximum likelihood include Carl Friedrich Gauss, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Thorvald N. Thiele, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. It was Ronald

Coriolis force (10,430 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Euler in 1749, and the effect was described in the tidal equations of Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1778. Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis published a paper in 1835

Stochastic process (18,653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

renowned mathematicians contributing to probability theory, such as Pierre-Simon Laplace, Abraham de Moivre, Carl Gauss, Siméon Poisson and Pafnuty Chebyshev

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1,736 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sketch of Jean-Jacques Barthélemy by Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier

Frequentist probability (2,522 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

purely descriptive or subjective one. Feller's comment is a criticism of Pierre-Simon Laplace's solution to the "tomorrow's sunrise" problem that used an alternative

Fermat's principle (8,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

extension of Fermat's principle went unnoticed. On 30 January 1809, Pierre-Simon Laplace, reporting on the work of his protégé Étienne-Louis Malus, claimed

William Lawrence Scott (1,619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1859–1928), who married Charles Hamot Strong (1853–1936), grandson of Pierre Simon Vincent Hamot, in 1881. Scott built the couple a 46-room mansion, completed

Château de Talcy (1,498 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the St Lazare family. It was bought in 1466 by a Parisian lawyer: Pierre Simon. The central tower was built by the Simon family in 1480. Three generations

Pascal's wager (6,659 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

religion and which God should be worshipped. The probabilist mathematician Pierre Simon de Laplace ridiculed the use of probability in theology, believing that

Total internal reflection (13,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

published in France in 1803, and apparently came to the attention of Pierre-Simon Laplace. According to Laplace's elaboration of Newton's theory of refraction

Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg (251 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Catholic Church titles Preceded by Pierre-Simon-Louis-Marie de Dreux-Brézé Bishop of Moulins 1893–1906 Succeeded by Emile-Louis-Cornil Lobbedey Preceded by

Heat (13,185 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

called ice calorimeter was used 1782–83 by Lavoisier and his colleague Pierre-Simon Laplace to measure the heat released in various chemical reactions. The

List of interior ministers of France (30 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1798 22 June 1799 Nicolas Marie Quinette 22 June 1799 10 November 1799 Pierre-Simon Laplace 12 November 1799 25 December 1799 Lucien Bonaparte 25 December

Angular momentum (13,465 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first conception of angular momentum as we now understand it. In 1799, Pierre-Simon Laplace first realized that a fixed plane was associated with rotation—his

A Course of Modern Analysis (1,955 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Fourier, Friedrich Bessel, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Adrien-Marie Legendre, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Niels Henrik Abel, and others in their

François-René de Chateaubriand (4,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

friends during this period included Madame de Staël, Joseph Joubert and Pierre-Simon Ballanche. Chateaubriand became a major figure in politics as well as

Grande école (6,803 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

major part of the curriculum taught by first-rank scientists such as Pierre-Simon Laplace, Charles Étienne Louis Camus, Étienne Bézout, Sylvestre-François

Isaac Todhunter (1,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Probability theory from the time of Blaise Pascal to that of Pierre-Simon Laplace first published in 1865. Some of these are available at Isaac

Io (moon) (12,540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Based on ephemerides produced by astronomer Giovanni Cassini and others, Pierre-Simon Laplace created a mathematical theory to explain the resonant orbits

Félix Tisserand (869 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

came to popular attention was lost in the shadow of his countryman, Pierre-Simon Laplace". American Scientist. 92 (3): 262–267. doi:10.1511/2004.47.933

Calorimetry (5,288 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782–83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat involved in various chemical changes;

École des ponts ParisTech (3,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

lecturer, fifty students (among whom Lebon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Pierre-Simon Girard, Riche de Prony, Méchain and Brémontier), initially taught themselves

Outline of science (4,453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

lived" Leonhard Euler – pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace – French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal

Julien-David Le Roy (794 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Julien-David Le Roy; medallion by Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier

Determinant (13,860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(22): 320–359, doi:10.1515/crll.1841.22.319, S2CID 123637858 Laplace, Pierre-Simon, de (1772), "Recherches sur le calcul intégral et sur le systéme du monde"

Simon Newcomb (3,588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

libraries. He borrowed a copy of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of Pierre-Simon Laplace's Traité de mécanique céleste from the library of the Smithsonian

List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Engraving (330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921–2020) 1803: Rambert Dumarest (1750–1806) 1806: Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (1730–1819) 1819: André Galle (1761–1844) 1845: Jacques-Édouard

Giovanni Battista Venturi (1,146 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

René Just Haüy, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jérôme Lalande, Gaspard Monge, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and many more. He also published several treatises, including

Hôtel-Dieu, Paris (3,529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lavoisier (1743–1794), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). The ensuing analysis of the Hôtel-Dieu and other

Jacques-Nicolas Tardieu (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

made several engravings. Her father, Jean Duvivier, and her brother, Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, were both medal engravers, members of the Academy

Quantile regression (4,108 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

fifty years. Other thinkers began building upon Bošković's idea such as Pierre-Simon Laplace, who developed the so-called "methode de situation." This led

Theory of tides (4,152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Earth to the tidal potential, the dynamic theory of tides, developed by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1775, describes the ocean's real reaction to tidal forces

Vladimir Arnold (5,035 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

resting on a flat surface. Arnold generalized the results of Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and James Ivory on the shell theorem, showing it to be applicable

Debye length (2,811 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basic microscopic plasma physics from N-body mechanics, A tribute to Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2, 1-68 I. H. Hutchinson

1st Canadian Screen Awards (289 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Cynthia Carrier, David Raymond, Aélis Héraud, Jean-Francois Lafleur, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Vanessa Delarosbil, Gabriel Morin and Dominic Marcotte

George Bishop (astronomer) (544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

took lessons in algebra from Augustus De Morgan, with a view to reading Pierre-Simon Laplace's five volume work Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics), by

Error function (6,897 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

decomposition and associated tests of independence". arXiv:math/0604627. Pierre-Simon Laplace, Traité de mécanique céleste, tome 4 (1805), livre X, page 255

Colley Matrix (1,425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for each team are identified as a ranking, thus being a realization of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s Rule of Succession. The formula was adjusted in 2007 to account

History of thermodynamics (3,780 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782–83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes; calculations

Planets beyond Neptune (9,336 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hindu gods Brahma and Vishnu, by reworking the patterns observed by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the planetary satellites of Jupiter and applying them to the

3rd Canadian Screen Awards (206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Benoît Brière, Vanessa Delarosbil, Maxime Entringer, Gabriele Gennaro, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Jonathan Legris, Elaine Phaneuf, Antoine Rouleau Copper:

Beta distribution (40,544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

distribution is the rule of succession, introduced in the 18th century by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the course of treating the sunrise problem. It states that

Warehouse 13 season 5 (497 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Theodosius of Bithynia's sundial, Karl Schwarzschild's pocket watch, Pierre-Simon Laplace's telescope, arrow of Achilles, Louis XIV's silverware, Joan

Lafayette dollar (4,369 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

use of the Houdon bust, the 1786 "Washington Before Boston" medal by Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier. The Lafayette bust (also on the obverse) was to be

Pierre-Joseph Tiolier (361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lons-le-Saunier in 1840. Pierre-Joseph Tiolier was taught by his brother-in-law, Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier. Tiolier was appointed controller of coins at the Paris

John Couch Adams (4,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

an effect that became known as the secular acceleration of the Moon. Pierre-Simon Laplace had given an explanation in 1787 in terms of changes in the eccentricity

Washington quarter (5,376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

beginning with the 1786 "Washington Before Boston" medal engraved by Pierre Simon DuViviers. Although only one American, Abraham Lincoln, had appeared

Low-temperature technology timeline (2,721 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

artificial refrigeration by William Cullen 1782 – Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace invent the ice-calorimeter 1784 – Gaspard Monge liquefied the

List of colonial governors of Chad (32 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Richard Brunot, Governor-Delegate 2nd Term 30 May 1935 to 23 October 1936 Pierre Simon Antonin Bonnefont, acting Governor-Delegate 23 October 1936 to 24 October

Fanny Alaux (257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bordeaux : Portrait de femme, 1839, pastel (inv. 58.1.952); Portrait de Pierre-Simon Jullien, 1842, pastel (inv. 58.1.1004); Portrait de Pauline Laurent,

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1,281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

his "numerical method". At the time of his practice, the mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace was extremely influential and had introduced the concept of correlation

Thomas Carlyle (14,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

an interest in astronomy and would study the astronomical theories of Pierre-Simon Laplace for several years. In November 1816, he began teaching at Kirkcaldy

Nebular hypothesis (9,172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

collapse and flatten due to gravity, eventually forming stars and planets. Pierre-Simon Laplace independently developed and proposed a similar model in 1796

Echinococcosis (5,789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hydatid cysts of echinococcosis were of "animal" origin. Then, in 1766, Pierre Simon Pallas predicted that these hydatid cysts found in infected humans were

Underwater exploration (4,767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

deep-sea exploration can be said to have begun when French scientist Pierre-Simon de Laplace investigated the average depth of the Atlantic Ocean by observing

Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Caen (615 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gervais de La Rue - Bernard Germain de Lacépède - Alphonse de Lamartine - Pierre-Simon Laplace - Urbain Le Verrier - François Magendie - Étienne-Jules Marey

List of astronomers (5,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

States, 1957–2010) Samuel Pierpont Langley (United States, 1834–1906) Pierre-Simon Laplace (France, 1749–1827) Jacques Laskar (France, 1955–) William Lassell

Bayesian econometrics (1,423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

developed by Rev. Thomas Bayes during the 18th century and later expanded by Pierre-Simon Laplace. As early as 1950, the potential of the Bayesian inference in

Jean-Antoine Chaptal (3,340 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Napoleon's first Minister of Interior (1799) was Berthollet's friend, Pierre-Simon Laplace, a scientist and mathematician and a poor administrator. He was

Victor de Bonald (95 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

a life of his father. Arthur McCalla (1998). A Romantic Historiosophy: The Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche. ISBN 90-04-10967-6. v t e

Gaussian gravitational constant (3,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

motion of bodies about the Sun. Later in the text, he mentions that Pierre-Simon Laplace treats these in detail in his Mécanique Céleste. Gauss's final

Chemical revolution (2,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and barometric measurements in his experiments, and collaborated with Pierre Simon de Laplace in the invention of the calorimeter, an instrument for measuring

History of chemistry (19,396 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

reconstitute atmospheric air in the same manner as a burning body. With Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lavoisier used a calorimeter to estimate the heat evolved per

List of French inventions and discoveries (10,636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

second order and general proof of the Lagrange reversion theorem by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century. The

The Martyrdom of Saint Maxence (104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

barbare Sartorek Raoul Chennevières as Théobald Berthe Jalabert as Rosébie Pierre Simon as Lucinius Georges Péclet as Michel Brabance Alice Desvergers as Tilda

Demon (thought experiment) (1,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

laws to reveal the entire course of cosmic events, past and future. Pierre-Simon Laplace based the demon on the philosophical proposition of causal determinism

Commission des Sciences et des Arts (1,392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexandre Sébastien Gérard (1779–1853), polytechnician (X 1798), naturalist Pierre-Simon Girard (1765–1835), chief engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées Alexis Gloutier

Landau damping (2,295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Basic microscopic plasma physics from N-body mechanics, A tribute to Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2, 1-68 van Kampen, N.

Driving while black (6,051 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Questions". The New York Times. Retrieved July 18, 2020. Meilhan, Pierre; Simon, Darran; Yan, Holly (November 14, 2018). "Chicago-area police chief

Volcanism on the Moon (4,646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

craters were collapsed volcanic domes that had vented all their gases. Pierre-Simon Laplace, another French astronomer, proposed in the 18th century that

École supérieure des affaires (Beirut) (783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Paris. 28 June 2006. Retrieved 17 January 2009. Morel Lebbos, Elodie. "Pierre Simon, président de la Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Paris : " L'ESA

1740s (18,236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

March 10 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838) March 23 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer (d. 1827) March 23 – Ulla von

Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering (4,488 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mémoire sur l’Électricité et le Magnétisme 1785 French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed the Laplace transform to transform a linear differential

The Lady Tasting Tea (854 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

chapters. Ronald Fisher H. Fairfield Smith Karl Pearson Francis Galton Pierre-Simon Laplace Jerzy Neyman Raphael Weldon Charles Darwin William Sealy Gosset

Atmospheric radiative transfer codes (2,603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-France) at IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) for its technical part. Currently, GEISA is involved in activities

Z-transform (5,651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

principles can be traced back to the work of the French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, who is better known for the Laplace transform, a closely related

John Michell (3,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concept of invisible, light-trapping stars, the French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested essentially the same idea in his 1796 book, Exposition

Timeline of Western philosophers (3,044 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

evolutionary theorist. Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832). Utilitarian, hedonist. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Determinist. Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) Conservative

Ferdinand Eckstein (408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur (1998). A Romantic Historiosophy: The Philosophy of History of Pierre-Simon Ballanche. Leiden, Boston, Koln: Brill, p. 277–81. McCalla, Arthur (1998)

Arthur Cowper Ranyard (757 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of matter from a centre, and not gradual condensation, as supposed by Pierre-Simon Laplace "Ranyard, Arthur Cowper (RNRT864AC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database

Speed of gravity (5,582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with the law of gravitation by Isaac Newton, in which it was shown by Pierre-Simon Laplace that a finite speed of gravity leads to some sort of aberration

Mars in fiction (14,310 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

proposed by the German Immanuel Kant and developed further by the Frenchman Pierre Simon de Laplace. The main difference with the current theory is that the cloud

History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (2,616 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the positional number system is described by the French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) who wrote: It is India that gave us the ingenious

French space program (1,944 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere. People Joseph Louis Lagrange Pierre-Simon Laplace Augustin-Jean Fresnel Jean-Yves Le Gall François Arago Philippe

Coenraed Lauwers (909 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lambert Visscher, Charles de La Haye, Jean Gerardin, François Spierre and Pierre Simon also contributed to this series entitled Heroicae Virtutes Imagines quas

Les Lavandières du Portugal (546 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Lary and Jean Marsan Dialogue : Jean Marsan Assistant Directors : Pierre Simon, Pierre Lary Music : André Popp Photography : Roger Fellous Camera Operator :

Equation of the center (1,897 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(other than multiples of π), a fact discovered by Francesco Carlini and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The equation of the center attains its maximum when the eccentric

Bayesian inference in phylogeny (5,011 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

basis of Bayesian inference. Independently, unaware of Bayes' work, Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes' theorem in 1774. Bayesian inference or the inverse

Typometer (1,236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

bookseller Martin-Dominique Fertel. In 1737, French engraver and typecaster Pierre-Simon Fournier (called Fournier the young) invented a tool in the shape of

List of statisticians (2,881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ernest Kuzmicich, Steve Kuznets, Simon Lah, Ivo Laird, Nan Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749–1827) Laslett, Peter Laspeyres, Étienne (1834–1913) Lathrop, Mark

Lunar theory (6,838 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Euler Alexis Clairaut Jean d'Alembert Tobias Mayer Johann Tobias Bürg Pierre-Simon Laplace Philippe le Doulcet Johann Karl Burckhardt Peter Andreas Hansen

François Forget (385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Meteorology (LMD) in 2003 and then headed the "Solar System" pole of the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute from 2009 to 2017. He worked at NASA between 2004 and

Ostwalds Klassiker der exakten Wissenschaften (1,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nikolaus Kopernikus: Über die Umschwünge der himmlischen Kreise 301/302 Pierre-Simon Laplace: Darstellung des Weltsystems 1, 2 303 Paul Emil Flechsig, Hans

Richard Lindzen (7,802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

anthropogenic ozone depletion will have on climate. Since the time of Pierre-Simon Laplace (1799), scientists had been puzzled as to why pressure variations

List of physicists (7,170 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Langevin – France (1872–1946) Irving Langmuir – United States (1881–1957) Pierre-Simon Laplace – France (1749–1827) Joseph Larmor – U.K. (1857–1942) John Latham

History of animal testing (4,267 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

are chemically identical. Lavoisier demonstrated this with the help of Pierre-Simon Laplace. They both carefully measured the amount of "carbon dioxide and

Global Energy and Water Exchanges (5,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

World Climate Research Program, WCRP Strategic Support Unit, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL) Kinter III JL and Shukla, J (1990). "The global hydrologic

Two-body problem in general relativity (6,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

[dubious – discuss] These calculations were carried out initially by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the late 18th century, and refined by Félix Tisserand in the

List of lunar features (1,269 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Promontorium Laplace 46°00′N 25°48′W / 46.0°N 25.8°W / 46.0; -25.8 50 km Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Promontorium Taenarium 19°00′S 8°00′W / 19.0°S

History of physics (14,177 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathematicians as Bernoulli and Euler, as well as Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. In 1743, Jean le Rond d'Alembert

List of French scientists (1,656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1744–1829), evolutionary biologist Paul Langevin (1872–1946), physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), mathematician and physicist François-de-Paule Latapie

Trivial (film) (1,135 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Camille is annoyed by Renard's presence and inquiry, and Renard's partner Pierre (Simon Abkarian) is convinced that this is a simple suicide case. Renard, however

Timeline of probability and statistics (1,054 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

least squares for fitting a curve to a given set of observations, 1814 – Pierre-Simon Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilités defends a definition

Index of physics articles (P) (2,603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Piero Giorgio Bordoni Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Pierre-Michel Duffieux Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre Aigrain Pierre Angénieux Pierre Auger Observatory Pierre

Jean-M.-Vincent Audin (548 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis XVII" (1815). He contributed to the "Journal de Lyon" founded by Pierre-Simon Ballanche. Once in Paris, he first published articles of a political

Rømer's determination of the speed of light (5,317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

satisfactorily explained until the work of Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–1813) and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) on orbital resonance. In 1809, again making use of

Geology of solar terrestrial planets (5,592 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first proposed in 1755 by Immanuel Kant and independently formulated by Pierre-Simon Laplace. This theory holds that 4.6 billion years ago the Solar System

Caslon (6,567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

notably the romain du roi type of the previous century, the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier in Paris, Fleischmann in Amsterdam and the Baskerville type

Chase the Express (1,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

they achieve. Following a visit to St. Petersburg, French ambassador Pierre Simon makes his return to Paris aboard a NATO armored train called "The Blue

Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem (1,100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bernoulli, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Alexis Clairaut, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Hugo Glydén, Anders

List of fellows of the Royal Society J, K, L (110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

May 1756 fl 1756 Edward Lany 30 November 1692 c. 1667 – 9 August 1728 Pierre Simon Laplace 30 April 1789 28 March 1749 – 5 March 1827 Michael Franz Lappert

Glossary of philosophy (18,929 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the philosophy of science, deriving from Enlightenment thinkers like Pierre-Simon Laplace. See also logical positivism. post-structuralism A varied reaction

History of the metre (15,113 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clairaut's spheroid drawn from the measurement of gravity. In 1789, Pierre-Simon de Laplace obtained by a calculation taking into account the measures

Joseph Petzval (3,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with the student Simon Spritzer, who accused Petzval of plagiarism of Pierre-Simon Laplace, led the Spritzer-influenced mathematicians George Boole and

Timeline of artificial intelligence (4,464 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The theory of probability is further developed by Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace in the 18th century. Probability theory would become central

Glossary of engineering: A–L (31,754 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

concept, gravity was a force between point masses. Following Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace attempted to model gravity as some kind of radiation field or

Ars Conjectandi (3,965 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

taken as a proof for the existence of God by Bayes. Finally in 1812, Pierre-Simon Laplace published his Théorie analytique des probabilités in which he

Cabinet of the French Consulate (114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

18 May 1804 Joseph Fouché Interior 12 November 1799 25 December 1799 Pierre-Simon Laplace 25 December 1799 21 January 1801 Lucien Bonaparte 21 January

Garamond (14,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Press. ISBN 978-0-521-09786-4. Mosley, James (1965). An Introduction to Pierre Simon Fournier's Modéles des Caractères de l'Imprimerie. London: Eugrammia

25th Gemini Awards (6,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Rachiele, Marie-Ève Bédard-Tremblay, Benoît Brière, Raphaël Hubert, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput - Ben Hur (Alchemy Television Group/Drimtim Entertainment/Muse

Georges-Louis Le Sage (2,512 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Euler, Paolo Frisi, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Johann Heinrich Lambert, Pierre Simon Laplace, Daniel Bernoulli, Firmin Abauzit, Lord Stanhope etc.. He gave

Joan Michaël Fleischman (1,807 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

be published by the brothers Ploos van Amstel as a Dutch response to Pierre-Simon Fournier's Manuel Typographique, which was never finished. A short manuscript

List of eponymous adjectives in English (3,120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lamarck (as in Lamarckian evolution) Landian – Nick Land Laplacian – Pierre-Simon Laplace (as in Laplacian field, Laplacian matrix) Levitical – Levi (as

Paul Deheuvels (742 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

that human activity only has a marginal influence on climate change. Pierre-Simon-de-Laplace Prize 2007. L'intégrale, Pr. Univ. de France, 1980, 228 p

History of the metric system (12,467 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and measures. They were Jean-Charles de Borda, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Gaspard Monge, and Nicolas de Condorcet.: 2–3 : 46 Over the

Meanings of minor-planet names: 4001–5000 (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

medical doctor in Isnello, Palermo. JPL · 4627 4628 Laplace 1986 RU4 Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer MPC · 4628 4629

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (2,148 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

named honorary president, a prestigious title given to the likes of Pierre-Simon Laplace, Georges Cuvier, Alexander von Humboldt and François-René de

Needle telegraph (2,798 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

electric telegraph. The first to suggest this was French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. On 2 October, André-Marie Ampère, acting on Laplace's suggestion

Acqueville, Calvados (638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Garnier 1850 1871 Louis Lepeltier 1871 1872 François Beaunieux 1872 1900 Pierre Simon 1900 1913 Auguste Thibault 1913 1919 Oriot 1919 1939 Auguste Thibault

Robyn Arianrhod (1,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

popularization of the works of others, Newton's Principia for Du Châtelet and Pierre-Simon Laplace's Traité de mécanique céleste for Somerville, but they had many

Louise-Thérèse de Montaignac de Chauvance (730 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

had previously received diocesan support and approval from the Bishop Pierre Simon de Dreux-Brézé. Chauvance died on 27 June 1885. Chauvance's spiritual

Timeline of zoology (7,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

history curiosities. B. White. Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent; Laplace, Pierre Simon de (1982). Memoir on Heat: Read to the Royal Academy of Sciences, 28

Navajo volcanic field (1,428 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

geography. List of volcanoes in the United States Bélanger, Caroline; Ross, Pierre-Simon (July 2018). "Origin of nonbedded pyroclastic rocks in the Cathedral

Hadley cell (11,799 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

similar reasoning as Hadley. In the latter part of the 18th century, Pierre-Simon Laplace developed a set of equations establishing a direct influence

List of Indian inventions and discoveries (22,401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the positional number system is described by the French mathematician Pierre Simon Laplace (1749–1827) who wrote: "It is India that gave us the ingenuous

Pali-Aike volcanic field (6,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1007/978-3-319-54371-0. ISBN 978-3-319-54371-0. S2CID 133793443. Ross, Pierre-Simon; Delpit, Séverine; Haller, Miguel J.; Németh, Károly; Corbella, Hugo

History of gravitational theory (10,802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

first by Leonhard Euler in 1748, then Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1763, by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1773. Each effort improved the mathematical treatment until

Le Sage's theory of gravitation (11,200 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

anti-materialistic philosophy. Partly in consideration of Le Sage's theory, Pierre-Simon Laplace undertook to determine the necessary speed of gravity in order

Yuejie Chi (404 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

through the Office of Naval Research. She was the inaugural winner of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Signal Processing

1st Legislature of the Haitian Parliament (305 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Senator Appointment End of term Department Notes Pierre Simon Hilaire Martin 5 December 1815 Jean-Louis Larose 28 February 1817 previous held office 1807-

History of special relativity (16,643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

discussed two of them. It was shown by Poincaré that the argument of Pierre-Simon Laplace, who argued that the speed of gravity is many times faster than

Euler equations (fluid dynamics) (13,150 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

equation, which was called the adiabatic condition, was supplied by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1816. During the second half of the 19th century, it was found

1995 World Masters Athletics Championships (727 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A Jones Robert Bowen Jesse Thomas Jean Pierre Dassonvill FRA 44.68 Pierre Simon Guy Marguin Andre Drutinus M40 4 x 400 Meters Relay Jon Ireland GBR

26th Gemini Awards (7,294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Catherine Hébert, Raphaël Hubert, Jonathan Laborde, Jean-Francois Lafleur, Pierre-Simon Lebrun-Chaput, Philippe Sylvain - Being Human - Dog Eat Dog (Muse Entertainment)

List of multiple discoveries (11,128 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

gravity." A few years later, a similar idea was suggested independently by Pierre-Simon Laplace. 1798: Malthusian catastrophe – Thomas Robert Malthus (1798)

Tide-predicting machine (3,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

years is known as the 'equilibrium theory' of tides. Beginning in 1776, Pierre-Simon Laplace made a fundamental advance on the equilibrium approximation,

Miss Catherine Fiske's Young Ladies Seminary (842 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

demonstrated the astronomical and mathematical calculations of Isaac Newton and Pierre-Simon Laplace, and pointed out from the wildflowers of the valley of the Ashuelot

Gateway to the Great Books (2,032 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of Space" Henri Poincaré, "Space", "Mathematical Creation"; "Chance" Pierre-Simon Laplace, "Probability" from A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities Charles

History of mathematical notation (11,512 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(solidus), deriving it from the earlier Arabic horizontal fraction bar. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace developed the widely used Laplacian differential

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (26,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Huygens's spheroid construction, not Newton's "Rule". Malus, encouraged by Pierre-Simon Laplace,: 1146 then sought to explain this law in corpuscular terms:

History of classical field theory (3,856 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1777, and independently by Adrien-Marie Legendre (1784–1794) and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1782–1799). Lagrange notice that he could introduce a gravitational

Index of philosophy articles (I–Q) (12,358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Pierre-Maurice-Marie Duhem Pierre-Simon Ballanche Pierre-Simon Laplace Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace Pierre-Sylvain Regis Pierre-Sylvain

William Lax (4,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peacock successfully introduced the new French mathematics (such as Pierre-Simon Laplace and Joseph Louis Lagrange) into the Senate House Examinations

List of schools in France (4,788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Châlons-en-Champagne Lycée Olympe de Gouges, Noisy-le-Sec Lycée Ozanam, Lille Lycée Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Caen Lycée P&M Curie Saint Lô, Saint-Lô Lycée P. Bayen,

Founders of statistics (2,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

interpretation of probability now known as Bayesian probability Laplace, Pierre-Simon French 1749 1827 Co-invented Bayesian statistics. Invented exponential

William Lax (4,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Peacock successfully introduced the new French mathematics (such as Pierre-Simon Laplace and Joseph Louis Lagrange) into the Senate House Examinations

Criticism of the theory of relativity (10,692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

synchronization, and the causality principle. Following an old argument by Pierre-Simon Laplace, Poincaré (1904) alluded to the fact that Newton's law of universal

1770s (36,570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

cricketer (d. 1858) Friedrich Stromeyer, German chemist (d. 1835) August 4 – Pierre-Simon Ballanche, French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher (d. 1847)

Lost artworks (3,679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Dog in a Storm 1787 1810 Fire at Exton Old Park A 1791 mezzotint by Pierre Simon exists Gainsborough Cottage Children with an Ass 1810 Fire at Exton Old

List of people from Lyon (876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry IV and Louis XIII Alexandre Lanfant (1726–1792) – French Jesuit Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776–1847) – Christian philosopher André Coindre (1787–1826) –

History of geodesy (12,825 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

invented the normal distribution. In 1810, after reading Gauss's work, Pierre-Simon Laplace, after proving the central limit theorem, used it to give a large

Undecimal (4,140 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tomash Publishers. OCLC 923223696. Lagrange, Joseph-Louis; Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1795). "Mathématiques". Séances des écoles normales, recueillies par

Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity (14,961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph-Louis Lagrange discovers the two remaining Lagrange points. 1796 – Pierre-Simon de Laplace independently introduces the nebular hypothesis. 1798 – Henry

Jean Dhombres (1,056 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1795. Hermann. ISBN 978-2705681920. Dhombres, J.; Alvarez, C. (2012). Pierre Simon de Laplace, 1749-1827: Le parcours d'un savant. Hermann. ISBN 978-2705682736;

List of comic and cartoon characters named after people (2,997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

after French pirate Jean Lafitte. Lapras from Pokémon – Mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace. Laurie Be Cool, a character in Bacall to Arms – Hollywood actress

Robert Fox (historian) (1,515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Gillispie, Charles Coulston; Fox, Robert; Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (1997). Pierre-Simon LaPlace: 1749–1827: a life in exact science (2nd ed.). Princeton, N.J

History of education in France (3,026 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

major part of the curriculum taught by first rank scientists such as Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Charles Étienne Louis Camus, Étienne Bézout, Sylvestre François

Kahnawake surnames (2,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one also appears in the 1901 census: Pierre Simon, 48, Marie, 46, wife. In the 1891 census they were Pierre Simon, 37, Cecile, 32, wife. -In the 1881 census:

Hendrik van den Keere (2,731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

for it is "Dutch taste" or goût Hollandois, the description used by Pierre-Simon Fournier for it. Hendrik Vervliet has suggested that the goal was to

Likelihoodist statistics (1,718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

statistics and probability, notably Bayesian inference as developed by Pierre-Simon Laplace from the late 1700s, likelihood as a distinct concept is due

Antiquarian science books (4,623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques, 1827. Electromagnetism Laplace, Pierre-Simon (France). Traité de Mécanique Céleste. Paris, 1827. Classical mechanics

List of French engravers (1,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bas (1707–1783), engraver Noël Hallé (1711–1781), painter and engraver Pierre-Simon Fournier (1712–1768), engraver Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714–1789)

List of theoretical physicists (7,962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1731–1810) Charles Coulomb (1736–1806) Joseph Lagrange^º (1736–1813) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Jurij Vega (1754–1802) John Dalton^ (1766–1844) Joseph

Lorentz ether theory (10,756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with the law of gravitation by Isaac Newton, in which it was shown by Pierre Simon Laplace that a finite speed of gravity leads to some sort of aberration

List of minor planets named after people (9,549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

4283 Stöffler (Johannes Stöffler) 4354 Euclides (Euclid) 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace) 5956 d'Alembert (Jean le Rond d'Alembert) 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras)

Bayesian inference in marketing (3,125 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

added to over the past centuries by Thomas Bayes, Richard Price and Pierre Simon Laplace as well as numerous other mathematicians, statisticians and scientists

Jean-Louis-Alexandre Herrenschneider (1,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maskelyne, Jean-Dominique Cassini, Jérôme Lalande, Jean Sylvain Bailly and Pierre-Simon Laplace. On his return to Strasbourg in 1791, the university was closed

Jacques-René Tenon (2,441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lavoisier (1743–1794), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736–1806), and Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). This commission published three consecutive reports

List of works by Eugène Guillaume (804 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of "The Reaper" and the "Gracchi". They also hold a Guillaume bust of Pierre-Simon Laplace the scientist. Scenes from the life of Ste. Valère, Scenes from

History of aerodynamics (3,897 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

model for calculating the speed of sound, but it was not correct until Pierre-Simon Laplace accounted for the molecular behavior of gases and introduced

2015 World Masters Athletics Championships (681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alan Coleman, John Lamb, Peter Crombie 53.05 France Daniel Débonnaire, Pierre Simon, Jean-Martin Allenbach, Pierre Teurnier 54.21 Germany Ulrich Klemm,

List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery (4,171 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

René Lalique – French glass designer Édouard Lalo – French composer Pierre-Simon Laplace – French mathematician and astronomer (remains moved to Saint

Scientific phenomena named after people (6,840 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(a.k.a. LRL vector, Laplace vector, Runge–Lenz vector, Lenz vector) – Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Carl Runge and Wilhelm Lenz Larmor frequency, precession

SNX8 (4,218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francoise; Vieville, Gaëlle; Fauré, Julien; Amblard, Florence; Jouk, Pierre-Simon; Coutton, Charles (August 2014). "7p22.3 microdeletion disrupting SNX8

Fresnel rhomb (4,857 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

birefringent crystals of the biaxial class – a feat that won the admiration of Pierre-Simon Laplace. In a memoir on stress-induced birefringence (now called photoelasticity)

List of philosophers (I–Q) (3,907 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Tzu) (4th century BC)[a][b][c][e] Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676)[a][b] Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827)[a][b][c] Ivan Ivanovich Lapshin (1870–1952)[b] François

Bayesian programming (6,891 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hidden Markov model Judea Pearl Kalman filter Naive Bayes classifier Pierre-Simon de Laplace Probabilistic logic Probabilistic programming language Subjective

Caslon Type Foundry (7,572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

instance the romain du roi type of the previous century, the work of Pierre-Simon Fournier in Paris, Fleischmann in Amsterdam and the Baskerville type

History of experiments (2,939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and combustion occurs with every instance of respiration. Working with Pierre-Simon Laplace, Lavoisier designed an ice calorimeter apparatus for measuring

Liette Vasseur (1,476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

team at the Université de Montréal in population genetics with Jean-Pierre Simon. She then completed her Ph.D. in biology at Queen's University (Kingston

Gordon Craig Theatre (2,312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hickey (Costume) 18 August 2014 Hairspray Francesca Fenech, Linda John-Pierre, Simon Anthony, Daniel Page Catherine Lomax Chris Keen Scenic Projects Pete

Bibliography of E. T. Whittaker (9,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1098/rsbm.1948.0031 Laplace, Pierre-Simon February 1949 The Mathematical Gazette doi:10.2307/3608408 Laplace, Pierre-Simon June 1949 American Math. Monthly

History of Grandi's series (6,535 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

situation involving a divergent series, in September 1713. According to Pierre-Simon Laplace in his Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilités, Grandi's series

Holy September Martyrs (2,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1792) Jean-Louis Guyard De Saint-Clair (c. 1734 – 2 September 1792) Jean-Pierre Simon (died 2 September 1792) Pierre-Jacques-Marie Vitalis (c. 1759 – 2 September

Casanova's Lottery (644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

calculus of probabilities relative to the lottery and a theorem from Pierre-Simon Laplace on the distribution of the number of draws needed for all 90

Capillary bridges (3,518 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contributed to the solution of the problem. One of them is Thomas Young. Pierre Simon Laplace contributed the notion of capillary tension. Laplace even formulated

Daniel Moulinet (1,681 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

l’université de Saint-Étienne, 2009, As publisher Édition de Paul Pelletier, Pierre Simon de Dreux-Brézé [fr], évêque de Moulins (1850–1893), Charroux, Éditions

Thierry, Prince de Hénin (1,096 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hélène-Marie-Éléonore van Brienen de Groote Lindt). His paternal grandfather was Pierre-Simon de Hénin-Liétard, a son of Jean-François-Joseph de Hénin-Liétard, chamberlain

Fluid thread breakup (4,276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

breakup was determined qualitatively by Thomas Young and mathematically by Pierre-Simon Laplace between 1804 and 1805. They correctly attributed the driver of

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Antoine Laurent de 346 Berthollet, Claude Louis, Comte 347 Laplace, Pierre Simon, Marquis de 348 Jenner, Edward 349 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von 350 Delambre

List of geodesists (638 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tadataka 1745–1818 (Japan) Georg von Reichenbach 1771–1826 (Germany) Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749–1827 (France) Adrien-Marie Legendre 1752–1833 (France) Johann