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Professor Thomas Körner - Two Scientific Giants: Laplace, Gauss and the Law of Errors

  • Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre · Cambridge
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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.
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Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre, 32 Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EG, United Kingdom

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