Pierre-Simon Laplace : French Scholar and Polymath whose Work was Important to the Development of Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Astronomy, and Philosophy

March 23, 1749 — March 5, 1827

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A French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume M?canique c?leste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799?1825).

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