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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

- John Barrymore

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 April 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial Mechanics) (1799-1825). This seminal work translated the geometric study of classical mechanics to one based on calculus, opening up a broader range of problems.

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