Thursday 15 August 2013

P.S. LAPLACE

 

Born23 March 1749 Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France Died5 March 1827(aged 77) Paris, France Nationality French Fields Astronomerand Mathematician Institutions École Militaire(1769–1776) Alma mater University of Caen Academic advisors Jean d'Alembert Christophe Gadbled Pierre Le Canu Doctoral students Siméon Denis Poisson Known for Work in celestial mechanics Predicting the existence of black holes. The chinese method of representing the coefficients of the the unknowns of several linear equations by using rods on a calculating board naturally led to the discovery of simple method of elimination.....



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