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Introduction (2012)

Mazliak, Laurent (Author)

Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 8
Pages: 1--3

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Introduction to a special section on Laplace.
Language: EnglishFrench

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Mathematical physics Biographies Probability and statistics 19th century 18th century Laplace, Pierre Simon

Though Napoleon's defeat in Russia marked the year 1812, Tchaikovsky's victorious notes in his 1812 Overture better introduce that year's triumph of a French scholar that Laplace was born the son of a farmer deep in the Auge region of Normandy in 1749. He surmounted his modest origins and attained great glory by dint of scientific genius. But it must be said that in addition to scientific genius he possessed a gift for politics that permitted him to float above the whirlpools of intrigue of the various governments that followed one upon the other throughout his life. He managed to stay close to the sources of power as a minister in the Consulate, a senator and count during the Empire, an aristocrat during the Restoration. At his death in 1827, Laplace exercised such a command of the sciences of his time (he was often termed a second Newton) that he remained their patron saint through most of the of the nineteenth century, figuratively guarding his authority over the mathematics and physics of the time just as his statue guarded the entryway of the galerie des bustes at Versailles.

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Description On the occasion of the bicentennial of Laplace's Analytic Theory of Probability. Contents:

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Article Kuusela, Vesa (2012) Laplace---A Pioneer of Statistical Inference. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (p. 1). unapi

Article Knobloch, Eberhard (2012) Alexandre de Humboldt et le Marquis de Laplace. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (p. 1). unapi

Article Zabell, S. L. (2012) De Morgan and Laplace: A Tale of Two Cities. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (p. 1). unapi

Article Bru, Marie-France; Bru, Bernard; Eid, Salah (2012) Une introduction analytique à la Théorie analytique. Hermann Laurent (1873). Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (p. 1). unapi

Article Martin, Thierry (2012) La réception philosophique de l'œuvre probabiliste de Laplace dans la France du premier XIXe siècle. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (p. 1). unapi

Article Durand-Richard, Marie-José (2012) La réception de la théorie des probabilités de Laplace chez les algébristes anglais (1812--1854). Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique (p. 1). unapi

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