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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aGillispie, Charles Coulston _eautore
245	1	0	_aPierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 : _bA Life in Exact Science / _cCharles Coulston Gillispie.
264		1	_aPrinceton, NJ : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©1997
300			_a1 online resource
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContent -- _tPreface -- _tAcknowledgment -- _tPART I: EARLY CAREER, 1768-1778 -- _tChapter 1. Youth, Education, and Election to the Academy -- _tChapter 2. Finite Differences, Recurrent Series, and Theory of Chance -- _tChapter 3. Probability of Events and of Their Causes: The Origin of Statistical Inference -- _tChapter 4. Universal Gravitation -- _tChapter 5. Distribution of Comets -- _tChapter 6. Partial Differential Equations, Determinants, and Variation of Constants -- _tChapter 7. The Figure of the Earth and the Motion of the Seas -- _tPART II: LAPLACE IN HIS PRIME, 1778-1789 -- _tChapter 8. Influence and Reputation -- _tChapter 9. Variation of Constants, Differential Operators -- _tChapter 10. Probability Matured -- _tChapter 11. Generating Functions and Definite Integrals -- _tChapter 12. Population -- _tChapter 13. Determination of the Orbits of Comets -- _tChapter 14. Lavoisier and Laplace: Chemical Physics of Heat -- _tChapter 15. Attraction of Spheroids -- _tChapter 16. Planetary Astronomy -- _tPART III: SYNTHESIS AND SCIENTIFIC STATESMANSHIP -- _tChapter 17. The Revolution and the Metric System -- _tChapter 18. Scientific Work in the Early Revolution -- _tChapter 19. Exposition du système du monde -- _tChapter 20. A Scientific Eminence -- _tChapter 21. Traité de mécanique céleste -- _tPART IV: LAPLACIAN PHYSICS AND PROBABILITY -- _tChapter 22. The Velocity of Sound -- _tChapter 23. Short-Range Forces -- _tChapter 24. The Laplacian School -- _tChapter 25. Theory of Error -- _tChapter 26. Probability: Théorie analytique and Essai philosophique -- _tChapter 27. Loss of Influence -- _tChapter 28. The Last Analysis -- _tPART V: THE LAPLACE TRANSFORM -- _tChapter 29. Laplace's Integral Solutions to Partial Differential Equations -- _tConclusion -- _tAbbreviations -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aPierre-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 took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famous treatises were the five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-1825) and Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812). In the former he demonstrated mathematically the stability of the solar system in service to the universal Newtonian law of gravity. In the latter he developed probability from a set of miscellaneous problems concerning games, averages, mortality, and insurance risks into the branch of mathematics that permitted the quantification of estimates of error and the drawing of statistical inferences, wherever data warranted, in social, medical, and juridical matters, as well as in the physical sciences. This book traces the development of Laplace's research program and of his participation in the Academy of Science during the last decades of the Old Regime into the early years of the French Revolution. A scientific biography by Charles Gillispie comprises the major portion of the book. Robert Fox contributes an account of Laplace's attempt to form a school of young physicists who would extend the Newtonian model from astronomy to physics, and Ivor Grattan-Guinness summarizes the history of the scientist's most important single mathematical contribution, the Laplace Transform.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650		0	_aAstronomy _xHistory.
650		0	_aPhysicists _zFrance _vBiography.
650		0	_aPhysics _xHistory.
650		0	_aScientists _zFrance _vBiography.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / History. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aFox, Robert _eautore
700	1		_aGrattan-Guinness, Ivor _eautore
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