Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.
Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial results. He made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum in 1647.
In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the and the ''Pensées'', the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. The latter contains Pascal's wager, known in the original as the ''Discourse on the Machine'', a fideistic probabilistic argument for God's existence. In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids. Provided by Wikipedia
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[Paris] : [Gallimard], 1954
[Paris] : [Gallimard], 1954
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Paris, G. Cres, 1928
Édition nouvelle revue sur les manuscrits et les meilleurs textes avec un introduction, des notes et un index analytique par Victor Giraud.
Paris, G. Cres, 1928
Édition nouvelle revue sur les manuscrits et les meilleurs textes avec un introduction, des notes et un index analytique par Victor Giraud.
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by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
München : G. Müller, 1918
München : G. Müller, 1918
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Paris : Librairie Hachette, 1920
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Éditions de Seuil 1957
Éditions de Seuil 1957
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Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., 2004
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., 2004
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Paris : Flammarion, 1936
Paris : Flammarion, 1936
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Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company 1882
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company 1882
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by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Paris, 1852
Paris, 1852
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Paris : Librairie Lecoffre, J. Gabalda et fils, éditeurs, 1927
Troisième édition revue.
Paris : Librairie Lecoffre, J. Gabalda et fils, éditeurs, 1927
Troisième édition revue.
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Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Penguin, 1966
Harmondsworth, England : Penguin Books ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking Penguin, 1966
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New York, P.F. Collier & son 1910
New York, P.F. Collier & son 1910
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Paris, Librairie A. Colin 1962
Paris, Librairie A. Colin 1962
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[Paris, Gallimard, 1954
[Paris, Gallimard, 1954
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London, New York, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton 1947
London, New York, J.M. Dent; E.P. Dutton 1947
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Paris, Editions de Seuil 1952
Paris, Editions de Seuil 1952
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Mount Vernon, The Peter Pauper Press 1947
Mount Vernon, The Peter Pauper Press 1947
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Paris : Charpentier, 1850
Paris : Charpentier, 1850
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