Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in... Wikipedia
Born: March 23, 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge, France
Died: March 5, 1827 (age 77 years), Paris, France
Academic advisors: Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Christophe Gadbled
Influenced by: Isaac Newton, Abraham de Moivre, and Leonhard Euler
Influenced: Siméon Denis Poisson, Karl Weierstrass, and Aleksandr Lyapunov
Notable students: Joseph Fourier, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Mikhail Ostrogradsky
Organization founded: Society of Arcueil