皮埃爾-西蒙·拉普拉斯(Pierre-Simon marquis de Laplace,1749年3月23日—1827年3月5日),法國數(shù)學(xué)家、天文學(xué)家,天體力學(xué)奠基人,提出星云假說、拉普拉斯方程,概率論先驅(qū),被譽為“法國的牛頓”,其理論深刻影響科學(xué)與數(shù)學(xué)發(fā)展。
The present state of the system of nature is evidently a resultant of what it was in the preceding moment, and if we conceive of an intelligence which at a given instant comprehends all the relations of the entities of this universe, it could state the respective positions, motions, and general effects of all these entities at any time in the past or future.