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Laplace's demon
In the history of science, Laplace's demon was the first published articulation of causal or scientific determinism, by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe, their past and future values for any given time are entailed; they can be calculated from the laws of classical mechanics.
A desire to confirm or refute Laplace's demon played a vital motivating role in the subsequent development of statistical thermodynamics
joint limiting distribution of the least squares estimators of two parameters.
Laplace's demon.
In 1814, Laplace published what is usually known as the first articulation of causal or scientific determinism:
This intellect is often referred to as "Laplace's demon" (in the same vein as "Maxwell's demon") and sometimes "Laplace's Superman" (after Hans Reichenbach). Laplace, himself, did not use the word "demon", which was a later embellishment. As translated into English above,