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The 49 pages that link to Pierre-Simon Laplace, each with the reason it gives.

• Leonhard EulerRelated: Laplace treated Euler as a major predecessor in the mathematical study of mechanics.

• Augustin-Louis CauchyRelated: Laplace belonged to the scientific establishment in which Cauchy trained and worked.

• Fundamental theorem of algebraRelated: His proof used polynomial factorization ideas that exposed the theorem’s algebraic roots.

• Normal distributionRelated: His work extended normal approximations and helped establish their mathematical foundations.

• Joseph-Louis LagrangeRelated: Laplace continued the mathematical astronomy that Lagrange helped establish.

• Academy of SciencesRelated: His membership and leadership connected the Academy to mathematical astronomy and state service.

• GeoidRelated: His mathematical treatment of Earth’s figure helped establish the gravity-based problem the geoid addresses.

• Tidal lockingRelated: His analyses of planetary motion helped develop explanations of lunar rotation.

• CalorimetryRelated: Their ice calorimeter used melting ice to quantify heat transfer.

• Roche limitRelated: Roche's treatment developed within the celestial-mechanics tradition Laplace helped establish.

• Adrien-Marie LegendreRelated: Laplace and Legendre worked in overlapping mathematical fields and institutions.

• Three-body problemRelated: His celestial-mechanics work advanced attempts to predict interacting planetary orbits.

• LaplacianRelated: The operator bears Laplace’s name through its role in potential theory.

• Laplace transformRelated: The transform bears Laplace's name and grew from methods associated with his work.

• Contact angleRelated: His capillarity theory helped establish the interfacial framework surrounding Young's contact-angle relation.

• Inclusion–exclusion principleRelated: Laplace used the principle in probability and helped establish its standard form.

• Bayesian probabilityRelated: His work greatly expanded the use of probabilistic inference from effects to causes.

• Harmonic functionRelated: His work on gravitational potential established the equation defining harmonic functions.

• Solar nebulaRelated: Laplace proposed that a rotating, contracting nebula could produce the Sun and planets.

• Bayesian decision theoryRelated: His work expanded the mathematical treatment of probability and evidence underlying Bayesian decisions.

• Accretion (astrophysics)Related: Laplace's nebular model helped frame later ideas about growth from orbiting matter.

• André-Marie AmpèreRelated: Laplace’s mathematical physics influenced the analytical methods available to Ampère.

• Potential theoryRelated: His work gave the Laplace equation its central place in mathematical physics.

• Beta distributionRelated: His work helped establish the mathematical framework in which beta integrals became useful.

• Nebular hypothesisRelated: Laplace gave the nebular hypothesis a influential mathematical and physical formulation.

• Gambler’s fallacyRelated: Laplace described the tendency to expect reversals in sequences of chance outcomes.

• Gaussian integralRelated: Laplace's approximation methods helped establish Gaussian integrals in probability calculations.

• Abraham de MoivreRelated: Laplace extended the approximation linking binomial probabilities to the normal curve.

• ChanceRelated: His ideal of complete prediction made chance a limit of knowledge rather than nature.

• Chemical RevolutionRelated: His work connected the new chemistry with quantitative physics and calorimetry.

• Charles-Augustin de CoulombRelated: Laplace and Coulomb belonged to the French scientific institutions that consolidated experimental physics.

• Galactic tideRelated: His celestial mechanics helped establish mathematical treatments of gravitational perturbations.

• Laplace resonanceRelated: The resonance bears his name because he analyzed the moons’ orbital relationship.

• Mary SomervilleRelated: Somerville translated and clarified the mathematical ideas associated with Laplace’s work.

• Siméon Denis PoissonRelated: Laplace mentored Poisson and influenced his work in probability and mathematical physics.

• Caloric theoryRelated: He developed caloric explanations of heat alongside Lavoisier.

• Claude Louis BertholletRelated: Laplace and Berthollet jointly investigated chemical affinity through experimental and mathematical approaches.

• Mathematical statisticsRelated: His work advanced probability-based estimation and the analysis of observational error.

• Thomas BayesRelated: Laplace independently developed and applied the inverse-probability approach that Bayes’s essay had anticipated.

• Jean-Baptiste BiotRelated: Laplace influenced Biot’s mathematical approach and supported his early scientific career.

• History of probabilityRelated: His work made probability a broad mathematical framework rather than a theory of games alone.

• Cassini's lawsRelated: The Laplace plane in the laws is named for his analysis of satellite orbital dynamics.

• De Moivre–Laplace theoremRelated: Laplace extended and generalized the approximation associated with de Moivre.

• History of the metric systemRelated: He advised the commission that reconsidered the proposed definition of the metre.

• Bienaymé's identityRelated: His probability theory provided the setting for results about sums of random quantities.

• History of geophysicsRelated: His gravitational mathematics linked Earth’s figure, tides, and rotation.

• Physical geodesyRelated: His equations and methods became foundational tools for describing Earth’s gravity potential.

• Theory of tidesRelated: Laplace developed equations describing tides in a rotating ocean.