Pierre Simon Laplace, Inverse Probability, Central Limit Theorem, Probability, Deep Dives.
emperor and his subsequent fall (again twice over). Several of Laplace’s fellow scientists and friends, many of them France’s brightest minds — Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794), Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793), and Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) to name just a few—had succumbed to the excesses of