Laplace (disambiguation)

Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer.

Laplace, LaPlace or La Place may also refer to:

Places

  • Laplace Island (Antarctica)
  • La Place, Illinois
  • LaPlace, Louisiana
  • Promontorium Laplace, a place on the Moon
  • 4628 Laplace, an asteroid

Fictional locations

People

  • La Placa (surname)

People with the surname

  • Charles Laplace (died 2008), West Indian murderer
  • Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793–1875), French navigator
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer
  • Victor Laplace (born 1943), Argentine actor

Transportation, transport stations, vehicles

  • Laplace (Paris Metro), a Paris Metro station
  • French ship Laplace (A 793), a hydrographic survey ship of the French Navy

Spaceflight

  • EJSM/Laplace, a proposed European space mission; precursor to JUICE
  • Laplace-P, a proposed Russian space mission

Other uses

  • La Place (band), a French band
  • LAPLACE (laboratory), a French physics laboratory
  • La Place (restaurant chain)
  • Lapras, a fictional species in the Pokémon franchise, called "Laplace" in Japanese

See also

Search for "laplace"  or "la-place" on Wikipedia.
  • Laplace distribution, a probability distribution
  • Laplace operator, a differential operator equal to the divergence of the gradient of a function
  • Laplace pressure, a pressure difference between the inside and the outside of a curved surface
  • Laplace transform, integral transform
  • Laplace's equation, an elliptic partial differential equation
  • Laplacian matrix, matrix representation in graph theory
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  • All pages with titles beginning with LaPlace
  • All pages with titles beginning with Laplace
  • All pages with titles containing la Place
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  • Place (disambiguation)
  • LA (disambiguation)
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