Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Laplace operator, Laplace's equation, Laplacian differential operator, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician, classical mechanics…laplace transform
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...

Cyrille-Pierre-Théodore Laplace

male, deceased (1875)
French, captain, navigator, Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, travel, Pacific Ocean
Cyrille-Pierre-Théodore Laplace was a French navigator famous for his travels in the Pacific Ocean, especially in Australia, Hawaii and New Z...

Víctor Laplace

male, 66 years old
film actor, argentine, actor, From Tandil, Un Amor en Moisés Ville, writer
Víctor Laplace is an acclaimed Argentine film actor. He has appeared in over 80 films since 1970, such as "Un Amor en Moisés Ville" in 2001.
Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville

female, deceased (1872)
Astronomer, Autodidact, mathematician, Polymath, Scottish, Science writer…laplace
Mary Somerville (December 26, 1780 - November 28, 1872) was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science...
Antoine Augustin Cournot

Antoine Augustin Cournot

male, deceased (1877)
Ecole Normale Superieure, laplace, mathematician, Dijon Academy, duopoly, monopolies
Antoine Augustin Cournot was a French economist, philosopher and mathematician. Augustin Cournot was born in the small town of Gray (Haute-Saône). H...
Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

male, deceased (1998)
Washington University, statistical mechanics, Bayesian inference, Bayesian probability, Probability Theory The Logic of Science, principle of transformation groups…laplace
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5, 1922 - April 30, 1998) was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He...
James Hopwood Jeans

James Hopwood Jeans

male, deceased (1946)
Wilson's Grammar School, Wilson's School, Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Camberwell, Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge, Old Merchant Taylor…laplace
Sir James Hopwood Jeans (September 11 1877 in Ormskirk, Lancashire - September 16 1946 in Dorking, Surrey) was a British physicist, astronomer and...
Marcello Truzzi

Marcello Truzzi

male, deceased (2003)
Pierre Simon Laplace, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, protoscience, American, laplace, Pseudoscience
Marcello Truzzi (September 6, 1935-February 2, 2003) was a professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of Committee...