Pierre Simon Laplace: 3 books
by Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents -Great Astronomers: Tycho Brahe - Great Astronomers: Johannes Kepler - Great Astronomers: Isaac Newton - Great Astronomers: Nicolaus Copernicus - Great Astronomers: Galileo Galilei - Great Astronomers: John Flamsteed -Great Astronomers:...
by Pierre-Simon Laplace
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A classic of science, this famous essay by "the Newton of France" introduces lay readers to the concepts and uses of probability theory. It is of especial interest today as an application of mathematical techniques to problems in social and biological sciences.Generally recognized as the founder of...
by marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
This philosophical essay is the development of a lecture on probabilities which I delivered in 1795 to the normal schools whither I had been called, by a decree of the national convention, as professor of mathematics with Lagrange. I have recently published upon the same subject a work entitled The...