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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 attraction is …

  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 (s). In practice, the …

  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 solar …

  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 the cosmos, but he …

  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 the time …

  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.