Laplace

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1. Laplace - Noun

2. Laplace - Proper noun

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French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)

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It is readily seen that any theory written by Laplace will be superior to all produced of lower standing. It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. Niels Henrik Abel

Laplace created a number of new mathematical methods that were subsequently expanded into branches of mathematics, but he never cared for mathematics except as it helped him to study nature. Morris Kline

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow. Neil Armstrong

Laplace had taken Newton's science and turned it into philosophy. The universe was a piece of machinery, its history was predetermined, there was no room for chance or for free will. The cosmos was indeed an ice-cold clock. Pierre-Simon Laplace

Also techniques of complex variables can be used directly to study Laplace transforms. Source: Internet

Applying Laplace transformation results in the transformed PID controller equation : : with the PID controller transfer function : There exists a nice example of the closed-loop system discussed above. Source: Internet

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