Pierre-Simon Laplace
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An 18th-century physicist and mathematician who resolved Newton's action-at-a-distance paradox by proposing the concept of a gravitational field.
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Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science | Lex Fridman Podcast #214
Lex Fridman
A French mathematician and astronomer, leader of French science, who was pressured by Arago to acknowledge his work.
Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation | Lex Fridman Podcast #47
Lex Fridman
A French mathematician and astronomer who showed that Newtonian gravity could be reformulated as a field theory, eliminating the need for action at a distance.
Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
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An 18th-century physicist and mathematician who resolved Newton's action-at-a-distance paradox by proposing the concept of a gravitational field.