Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
A Biographical Congressional Directory with an Outline History of the National Congress, 1774-1911
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
Ackworth school catalogue
Author: Ackworth schAn Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Probate Registry, at Chester
Author: Chester (England). Probate RegistryPublisher:
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Category : Inventories of decedents' estates
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire
Author: Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: East Whiteland-Leacraft, G
Author: Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789
Author: A General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827
Author: Charles Coulston GillispiePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691050270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Pierre-Simon Laplace was among the most influential scientists in history. Often referred to as the lawgiver of French science, he is known for his technical contributions to exact science, for the philosophical point of view he developed in the presentation of his work, and for the leading part he took in forming the modern discipline of mathematical physics. His two most famous treatises were the five-volume Traité de mécanique céleste (1799-1825) and Théorie analytique des probabilités (1812). In the former he demonstrated mathematically the stability of the solar system in service to the universal Newtonian law of gravity. In the latter he developed probability from a set of miscellaneous problems concerning games, averages, mortality, and insurance risks into the branch of mathematics that permitted the quantification of estimates of error and the drawing of statistical inferences, wherever data warranted, in social, medical, and juridical matters, as well as in the physical sciences. This book traces the development of Laplace's research program and of his participation in the Academy of Science during the last decades of the Old Regime into the early years of the French Revolution. A scientific biography by Charles Gillispie comprises the major portion of the book. Robert Fox contributes an account of Laplace's attempt to form a school of young physicists who would extend the Newtonian model from astronomy to physics, and Ivor Grattan-Guinness summarizes the history of the scientist's most important single mathematical contribution, the Laplace Transform.
General Biographical Dictionary Comprising a Summary Account of the Most Distinguished Persons of All Ages, Nations and Profession
Author: John Lauris BlakePublisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Author: John Lauris BLAKE