French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
He turned the cosmos into calculus. Laplace rewrote celestial mechanics so that planets and moons obeyed equations instead of diagrams, sketched what we now call black holes a century early, and gave statistics the Bayesian framework it still runs on.
Pierre-Simon Laplace was born 23 March 1749 in France and trained a mathematical mind that contemporaries called superior to nearly anyone alive. His five-volume Mécanique céleste, published between 1799 and 1825, translated Newton's geometric mechanics into the language of calculus and opened physics to problems geometry couldn't touch. He refined the nebular hypothesis of how the Solar System formed, derived a better speed of sound than Newton had managed, and pioneered the Laplace transform and the differential operator that still carry his name. In statistics he developed the Bayesian inte…
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The most important questions of life... are indeed for the most part only problems of probability.
All these efforts in the search for truth tend to lead it [the human mind] back continually to the vast intelligence... but from which it will always remain infinitely removed.
Let us recall that formerly, and at no remote epoch... all the unusual phenomena were regarded as so many signs of celestial wrath.
Nature laughs at the difficulties of integration.
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