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  1. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Wikipedia

    Laplace formulated Laplace's equation, and pioneered the Laplace transform which appears in many branches of mathematical physics, a field that he took a leading role in forming.

  2. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace - Britannica

    Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who was best known for his investigations into the stability of the solar system.

  3. Pierre-Simon Laplace - New World Encyclopedia

    Together with Thomas Young, Laplace is credited with describing the pressure across a curved surface, as set out in the Young-Laplace equation. In theoretical physics the theory of capillary …

  4. Pierre-Simon Laplace - Biography, Facts and Pictures

    Pierre-Simon Laplace was a prominent French mathematical physicist and astronomer of the 19th century, who made crucial contributions in the arena of planetary motion by applying Sir Isaac …

  5. 3.1: Laplace Transformation Basics - Mathematics LibreTexts

    The Laplace Transformation gives us a way to "decode" the function itself (how it acts on a variable t) into an expression of how it integrates against a various rates of growth or decay …

  6. Pierre Laplace - Physics Book

    Dec 2, 2015 · Before his death in Paris in 1827, Laplace had earned the reputation of a renowned mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, best known for his studies in the stability of the …

  7. The Laplace Transform - Interactive Mathematics

    Laplace was a French mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who applied the Newtonian theory of gravitation to the solar system (an important problem of his day).

  8. Laplace, Pierre-Simon Marquis de - Encyclopedia of Mathematics

    Oct 28, 2023 · Laplace held the view that man, in contrast to the "demon", was capable of achieving only partial knowledge about the causes and laws which regulate the processes of …

  9. We’ve just seen how time-domain functions can be transformed to the Laplace domain. Next, we’ll look at how we can solve differential equations in the Laplace domain and transform back to …

  10. Pierre-Simon Laplace | Research Starters - EBSCO

    <p>Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) was a prominent French mathematician and astronomer, renowned for his foundational work in probability theory and celestial mechanics.