In this episode, we cover the history of PierreSimon Laplace, a French polymath who was pivotal in developments in physics (e.g. Mecanique Celeste) and mathematics (e.g. differential equations, probability theory).
I go a bit deeper into the mathematics in this video, but still the primary focus is on Laplace's history.
Sources:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16...
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro screen
0:10 Intro
0:40 Early Life
2:40 Early Research
4:18 Physics Research
8:26 Marriage / Metric System
10:05 Exposition du système du monde / Mécanique Céleste
12:05 Relationship with Napoleon
14:36 Probability Theory
16:24 Death / Fin