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Pierre-Simon Laplace
In Our Time: Science
The Importance of Laplace
Laplace had a huge impact on 19th century mathematics and that is part of the foundation for later mathematics so he was he's just become ubiquitous in a way that I think nowadays is not possible. Two main important consequences one was this confidence that we could explain the entire universe with a smallish number of mathematical laws if only we could properly get our hands on them. The other was his introduction into science of these more abstract concepts such as the potential that Tim was talking about before.
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