Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French polymath (1749–1827)

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…