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Siméon Denis Poisson

The life of Siméon Denis Poisson - The Clumsy Surgeon

Poisson Distribution

Probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval.

\[ P(k) = \frac{\lambda^k e^{-\lambda}}{k!} \]

Poisson Equation

Generalization of Laplace's equation for systems with charge/mass density.

\[ \nabla^2 \varphi = f \]

Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Poisson/

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