Hasard et d\'eterminisme chez Laplace
History and Overview
2007-09-28 v1
Abstract
Laplace's views on randomness and determinism. The paper was written for "Cahiers rationalistes" and addresses a rather wide audience. It contains large quotations of Laplace, most of them coming from his introduction to the book "Analytical theory of probabilities".
Cite
@article{arxiv.0709.4382,
title = {Hasard et d\'eterminisme chez Laplace},
author = {Jean-Pierre Kahane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.4382},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Le contenu de l'article est paru, sous une forme un peu diff\'erente, en 1984, dans la revue "l'Ecole et la nation"