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To his detailed presentation of the probability calculus, Laplace wrote an introduction which is an elaboration of a course of lectures that he had given in 1795 when, together with Lagrange, he was appointed professor of mathematics at the École normale by the national convention.
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Frank, P., Cohen, R.S. (1998). The Most Incisive Formulation of the Law of Causality: Laplace’s Demand for a World-Formula. In: Cohen, R.S. (eds) The Law of Causality and Its Limits. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5516-8_2
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