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Pierre Simon Laplace
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Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung
probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des
probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les
probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this
work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie".
The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in
1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the
various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations
of various editions in different languages have apeared over the
years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today.
This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent
re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826,
with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the
second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive
commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and
mathematical remarks and various proofs.
Published in 1831, this work forms part of a collection of
introductory volumes suggested by Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux,
the Lord Chancellor, for the Society of the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge. Due to the exceptional mathematical ability of its
author, however, it outgrew its original plan and has since been
seen as a rather more ambitious project. Praised by Somerville's
contemporary Sir John Herschel for its presentation of general
astronomical theories and the mechanical principles employed in
their derivation, the work was a tour de force of scientific and
technical exposition. It is especially remarkable both for its
author's firm grasp of the subject, especially given her lack of
formal mathematical training, and for its clear outline of
Newtonian philosophy for a popular audience.
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