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Pierre-Simon Laplace

In Our Time: Science

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Introduction

P.S.I. Mona Place was a giant in the world of mathematics. He addressed one of the great questions of his age, raised but not answered by Newton. If you knew how many particles there were in the universe, could you predict the future? In our markets to Sotoi, Simone Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. And Colver Ronin Dougal, Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.

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