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Pierre Simon de Laplace

(1749–1827) Mathematician

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Pierre Simon de Laplace was a mathematician.

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Born
March 23, 1749
Died
March 5, 1827
Profession
Mathematician

About Pierre Simon de Laplace

[Wikidata] French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)... | [Wikipedia] Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste (1799–1825). This

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