A (very) Brief History of Pierre-Simon Laplace

In this episode, we cover the history of Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French polymath who was pivotal in developments in physics (e.g. Mecanique Celeste) and mathematics (e.g. differential equations, probability theory).

I go a bit deeper into the mathematics in this video, but still the primary focus is on Laplace's history.

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0:00 Intro screen
0:10 Intro
0:40 Early Life
2:40 Early Research
4:18 Physics Research
8:26 Marriage / Metric System
10:05 Exposition du système du monde / Mécanique Céleste
12:05 Relationship with Napoleon
14:36 Probability Theory
16:24 Death / Fin

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[gabrielmenezes]

This guy made my life on signal processing so much easier… thank you mr laplace

[thealphanigga]

Notice how d'Alembert has played a role in each of the great mathematicians of his time, I think he also deserves his own video.

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[haroldmatias]

These are truly interesting and valuable. Something students of science and mathematics should value more is the historical development of the ideas they are learning about. These videos shine a light on that aspect of our learning.

[arjyabhattacharyya]

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[Nylspider]

Oh yeah Laplace, he made that super important integral function or something

[jairam]

Where to get more details about, how Laplace derived Laplace transform?

[omniyambot]

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[Jamezzcrew]

I was disappointed with no mention of Laplace’s demon, despite enjoying the brief history on Laplace! Great work nonetheless. But I’d love to see a video on Laplace’s Demon.

[Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much, note to self(nts) watched all of it again 17:10

[JackT]

0:11 he was 18th and 19th century, not 17th and 18th. Great video though

[UniTheClown]

Don't forget he took out one of the top Nazi Commanders

[agrajyadav]

napolean was super lucky to have laplace but clearly didn't deserve it

[brefeye]

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