Laplace was the first to point out that that process is reversible.
Laplace 's demon is something that has the ability-- what we'd now really call it is a really good computer.
Laplace solves several problems that Newton couldn't manage and persuaded himself that the whole of the Universe was ordered and would be predicted.
So Laplace invented what we now call Laplace 's demon, or what he called a vast intellect.
If Laplace 's demon knew everything about the state of the universe at one moment in time, the position and the momentum of every particle moving
And Laplace says that is what the world is like at a deep level.
And Laplace came up with my favorite phrase, which is I have no need of that hypothesis.
Maybe you have a Laplace 's demon in one of the other buildings.
It can do what Laplace said.
But according to Laplace or to modern physics, there's no difference between moving toward the past and moving toward the future at the microscopic level.
Napoleon asked Laplace , why is there no mention of God in this book?
for the Laplace transform. Now, as a young man of 25, Laplace discovers the rule independently
But when Laplace dies in 1827, the Western world begins almost a manic fad collecting
But you can make the argument that Laplace was the first person to really internalize what it meant, the deep implications of this Newtonian clockwork universe
people are applying contributions of Laplace , like the law of central limit theorem, the normal errors, contributions by Shannon about sampling,
in the universe, then Laplace says that vast intellect would know the future and past just as surely as the present.
Now, Laplace , also unlike Bayes, was the quintessential scientific researcher.
And this was developed over time and probably reached the pinnacle with Pierre-Simon Laplace , a French mathematician and physicist around the year 1800.
This is the modern version of what you need to program into Laplace 's demon so that starting from the position and configuration
When Napoleon, who himself studied with Laplace , read Laplace 's extraordinarily dense book, which is way above my head, about mathematics.
In a uniform universe, and it was known that this was true from the time of Laplace and Newton, that a uniformly distributed universe with uniform matter
Well, I think there was a mathematician, many of you know, called Laplace , who was a mathematician and an astronomer.
But of course, the startling discovery we now know is, of course, that Laplace was completely wrong.
And that is the great French mathematician, Pierre-Simon Laplace , who's better known today
And Laplace 's method had involved integration of functions and it was hopelessly