Pierre-Simon Laplace
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French mathematician and astronomer
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Why Is Pierre-Simon Laplace Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five-volume Mécanique céleste . This work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems. In statistics, the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by Laplace.
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