Two Scientific Giants: Laplace, Gauss and the Law of Errors
Date: Mon Mar 01 2027 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 17:30 - 18:30
Location: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry
Laplace is sometimes described as the “French Newton". He is best known as a physicist, but he was a polymath and he also played a key part in the development of probability theory. I shall talk about how he came to the result now known as the central limit theorem and why we consider it so important. Note that ex-directory lists are not shown. Laplace is sometimes described as the “French Newton". He is best known as a physicist, but he was a polymath and he also played a key part in the develo
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