Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
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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
Fermilab
An 18th-century physicist and mathematician who resolved Newton's action-at-a-distance paradox by proposing the concept of a gravitational field.
Free Will Is the Ability to Envision Futures | Martin Seligman
Closer To Truth
Laplace is mentioned in the context of his idea of determinism, specifically the 'Laplace's demon' concept, which the speaker argues is flawed due to the statistical nature of the universe.