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