Flowery Regions of Algebra
Simon Schaffer: Pierre Simon Laplace, 14 December 2006
Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist
by Roger Hahn.
Harvard, 310 pp., £21.95, November 2005,0 674 01892 3 Show More
by Roger Hahn.
Harvard, 310 pp., £21.95, November 2005,
“... French, they use the word ‘Cartesian’. But they ought rather to say ‘Laplacian’. Pierre Simon Laplace was born into a prosperous rural family in 1749; he trained for the priesthood; and in 1773 was elected to the Académie. He had recently composed a series of astonishingly assured calculations about the application of probability calculus to the ... ”