Laplace (disambiguation)
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer.
Laplace, LaPlace or La Place may also refer to:
Mathematics
- Laplace operator, a differential operator equal to the divergence of the gradient of a function
- Laplace's equation, an elliptic partial differential equation
- Laplace distribution, a probability distribution
- Laplacian matrix, matrix representation in graph theory
- Laplace transform, integral transform
People
- Charles Laplace (died 2008), West Indian murderer
- Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793–1875), French navigator
- Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), French mathematician
- Victor Laplace (born 1943), Argentine actor
Places
- La Place, Illinois, USA
- LaPlace, Louisiana, USA
- Laplace Island, Antarctica
- Promontorium Laplace, on the Moon
Other
- 4628 Laplace, asteroid
- EJSM/Laplace, proposed European space mission
- Laplace-P, proposed Russian space mission
- La Place (band), French band
- LAPLACE (laboratory), French physics laboratory
- Laplace (Paris Metro), French Metro station
- Laplace pressure, pressure difference between the inside and the outside of a curved surface
- La Place (restaurant chain), a restaurant chain owned by Sun European
See also
- All pages with titles containing Laplace
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