Professor Thomas Körner - Two Scientific Giants: Laplace, Gauss and the Law of Errors
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Professor Thomas Körner
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
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.
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
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.
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Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre, 32 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EG, United Kingdom
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Host or PublisherCambridge Philosophical Society
