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Names of the Books from the Exposition du systeme du monde
100
March 5, 1827
What day did he die?
100
March 23, 1749
What is his birthday?
100
Maxima and Minima of curves was not published. The paper on Difference Equations was published.
What topic was his first paper that was not published on? What topic was his first paper that was published on?
100
Jean-le-Rond D’Alembert.
Who was the fellow mathematician that Laplace worked as a mathematics professor with at École Militaire?
100
Apparent motions of the celestial bodies, the motion of the sea and atmospheric refraction.
What is the first book in Exposition du systeme du monde about?
200
Paris, France
Where did he die?
200
Normandy, France
Where was he born?
200
On March 31, 1772 he was elected into it and he was denied twice before that.
When was he elected into the Académie des Sciences and how many times did he apply before?
200
C. Gadbeld and P. Le Canu
Who were the teachers at Caen that realized his great mathematical potential?
200
The actual motion of the celestial bodies.
What is the second book from Exposition du systeme du monde about?
300
École Militaire
What was the first school he was appointed a mathematic professor at?
300
A career with the Church.
His father expected him to have a career doing what?
300
The main mathematical approach is setting up differential equations and solving them to descrie the resulting motions.
What is the main mathematical approach in Mécanique Céleste?
300
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Who was the chemist that together him and Laplace showed respiration to be a form of combustion?
300
Force and Momentum.
What is the third book from the Exposition du systeme du monde about?
400
He married Marie-Charlotte de Courty de Romanges on May 15, 1788.
Who was his wife and when did they get married?
400
He attended a military academy at Beaumont and he entered the University of Caen in 1766.
What are the names of the schools he attended?
400
Recherches sur le calcul intégral aux différences infiniment petites, et aux différences finies to the Mélanges de Turin.
What was the paper Laplace sent that contained equations which he states were important in mechanics and physical astronomy called?
400
Universal gravitation including the accound of the motion of the sea and shape of the earth.
What is the fourth book from the Exposition du systeme du monde about?
500
He had 2 children. His son Charles-Émilie and his daughter Sophie-Suzanne. Sophie-Suzanne died during childbirth and Charles-Émilie died of natural causes in his old age.
How many children did he have? What were their names? When and why did they die?
500
13 scientific papers which regarded integral calculus, mechanics and physical astronomy gaining him a lot of fame and ultimately referring to himself as the best mathematician in France.
At the age of 2, how many scientific papers had Laplace already written? What were they about? What did he call himself?
500
The first studied generating functions and approximations to various expressions occurring in the probability theory. The second book contains his definition of probability.
What did the first and second books of Laplace's Théorie Analytique des Probabilités study?
500
Lagrange left Berlin to join Laplace as a member like Laplace was in 1793. He came because he thought there would be a huge benefit from the ideas that could and would flow from the two of them working together.
Who, when and why was the person that came to join Laplace in Paris?
500
The historical account of astronomy which also included his famous nebular hypothesis.
What is the fifth book from the Exposition du systeme du monde about?
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