Pierre-Simon Laplace

Thinkers1749 to 1827Mathematician and astronomer

Works

  • Mémoire sur la probabilité des causes par les événements, 1774

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A French mathematician and astronomer. His 1774 memoir on the probability of causes given events gave a general method for reasoning from observed effects back to their causes, and the Bayesian interpretation of probability was developed mainly by him.

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