Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)

Beaumont-en-Auge (, literally Beaumont in Auge) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. The town hosts one of the last kaleidoscope manufacturers in France.

second order partial differential equation

divergence of the gradient

hypothetical being who knows the location and momentum of every atom and therefore knows the past and future of the universe using classical mechanics

probability distribution

maximum eccentricity for which a power series for Kepler's equation converges