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Pierre-Simon Laplace
In Our Time: Science
Laplace's Laplace Transform for COVID
I think Lagrange is much more mathematically minded than Laplace who is really just interested in describing the physical universe and really can I mean he had these it always say well this bit is clear and it would be just him washing over a really complicated explanation. He's really a physicist scientist rather than a mathematician I thinkYeah so we got to do a program on Lagrange I had a really nice example I didn't get time to do because it was probably taken too long about how you can use a Laplace transform to go between the two main measures that we hear about COVID at the moment. There's the R rate which is how many people on average each infected person is going to
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