Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 : : A Life in Exact Science /

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 : : A Life in Exact Science / / Charles Coulston Gillispie.

Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Gillispie, Charles Coulston,
MitwirkendeR:
Fox, Robert,
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgment
  • PART I: EARLY CAREER, 1768-1778
  • Chapter 1. Youth, Education, and Election to the Academy
  • Chapter 2. Finite Differences, Recurrent Series, and Theory of Chance
  • Chapter 3. Probability of Events and of Their Causes: The Origin of Statistical Inference
  • Chapter 4. Universal Gravitation
  • Chapter 5. Distribution of Comets
  • Chapter 6. Partial Differential Equations, Determinants, and Variation of Constants
  • Chapter 7. The Figure of the Earth and the Motion of the Seas
  • PART II: LAPLACE IN HIS PRIME, 1778-1789
  • Chapter 8. Influence and Reputation
  • Chapter 9. Variation of Constants, Differential Operators
  • Chapter 10. Probability Matured
  • Chapter 11. Generating Functions and Definite Integrals
  • Chapter 12. Population
  • Chapter 13. Determination of the Orbits of Comets
  • Chapter 14. Lavoisier and Laplace: Chemical Physics of Heat
  • Chapter 15. Attraction of Spheroids
  • Chapter 16. Planetary Astronomy
  • PART III: SYNTHESIS AND SCIENTIFIC STATESMANSHIP
  • Chapter 17. The Revolution and the Metric System
  • Chapter 18. Scientific Work in the Early Revolution
  • Chapter 19. Exposition du système du monde
  • Chapter 20. A Scientific Eminence
  • Chapter 21. Traité de mécanique céleste
  • PART IV: LAPLACIAN PHYSICS AND PROBABILITY
  • Chapter 22. The Velocity of Sound
  • Chapter 23. Short-Range Forces
  • Chapter 24. The Laplacian School
  • Chapter 25. Theory of Error
  • Chapter 26. Probability: Théorie analytique and Essai philosophique
  • Chapter 27. Loss of Influence
  • Chapter 28. The Last Analysis
  • PART V: THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM
  • Chapter 29. Laplace's Integral Solutions to Partial Differential Equations
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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