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

• Laplace, a space colony destroyed at the beginning of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

People

• La Placa (surname)

People with the surname

• Charles Laplace (died 2008), West Indian murderer
• Cyrille Pierre Théodore Laplace (1793–1875), French navigator
• Luis Laplace (fl 1995-), Argentinian architect
• Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), 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

• 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
• All pages with titles beginning with La Place
• All pages with titles beginning with LaPlace
• All pages with titles beginning with Laplace
• All pages with titles containing la Place
• All pages with titles containing Laplace
• Place (disambiguation)
• LA (disambiguation)