The most incisive formulation of the law of causality

Laplace's demand for a world-formula

pp. 43-63

in: Philipp Frank, Robert S. Cohen, The law of causality and its limits, Berlin, Springer, 1998

Abstract

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.