Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace

Hans Fischer

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 95-100 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Pierre-Simon Laplace was the most prominent exponent of 19th century probability theory. His major probabilistic work, the Théorie analytique des probabilités considerably influenced the development of mathematical probability and statistics right to the beginning of the 20th century.

Keywords: Central Limit Theorem; Independent Random Variable; Error Theory; Moral Science; Posteriori Probability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_19

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