Ioan James

“{{cite web|title=Ioan M. James|website=Institute for Advanced Study (ias.edu)|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/ioan-m-james}}”

“{{cite web|title=Prof Ioan James (1928 – 2025)|website=The Queens College, University of Oxford|url=https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/news/prof-ioan-james-1928-2025/}}”

“Although the main field of Laplace's research was {{w|celestial mechanics}}, he also made important contributions to the {{w|Probability theory|theory of probability}} and {{w|statistical inference}}. In his {{w|Pierre-Simon Laplace#Analytic theory of probabilities|Théorie analytique des probabilités}} (Analytical theory of probability) of 1812 he summarized, in a masterly introduction, all that was then known in the area of probability and its applications. This work introduces the technique known later as the Laplace transform, a simple and elegant method of solving {{w|integral equation}}s.”