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LAPLACE LAPLACE Pierre Simon Laplace was born in Beaumont-en-Auge in Normandy, France on March 23, 1749. His father, Pierre Laplace, was quite well off in the cider trade and his mother, Anne Sochon, was from a wealthy farming family. When he was 19 he moved to Paris for further education. During this time period Laplace began producing a stream of remarkable mathematical papers, which he presented to the Paris Academy of Sciences. His first paper was presented on March 28, 1770, he then proceeded to introduce a series of papers. His first published paper was published in Latin in 1771. In 1771, Laplace first tried to be elected to the Paris Academy of Sciences, but failed. Laplace tried again in 1772 and was beaten by an obviously inferior, though more experienced, person. This angered Laplace greatly, though in 1773 he got a chance to try again and this time was elected. By the time Laplace was elected, he had written 13 quality papers on a variety of subjects. In 1784 Laplace was appointed as examiner oat the Royal Artillery Corps, where, in 1785, he inspected and passed Napoleon Bonaparte. In this position he became well known to the ministers of government and others with power laplace, transform, function, inverse, academy, sciences, yt, transforms, paris, integral, given, exponential, ys, time, real, position, one, fourier, first, during, defined, de, two, though, signal, served, period, papers, number, n1, member, gt, functions, formula, family