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Works by Blaise Pascal at Open Library; BBC Radio 4. In Our Time: Pascal. Blaise Pascal featured on the 500 French Franc banknote in 1977. Archived 16 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine; Blaise Pascal's works: text, concordances and frequency lists "Blaise Pascal" . Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. Etext of Pascal's Pensées (English, in various ...
Second edition of Blaise Pascal's Pensées, 1670. The Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. [1]
Pascal replied, also quoting Aristotle (he seemingly was the only one to use this argument in this debate), [6] that Aristotle spoke only of knowledge of the actual circumstances of the act, but not at all of the capacity to discriminate between good and evil – since Aristotle stated that one who was devoid of that capacity was not excused at ...
Pascal’s conversion experience, with its distinctly Mosaic overtones, would eventually lead him to show that Christianity’s firmest foundation is the sanctity of Judaism, both past and present.
Pascaline (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascal's calculator) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen , France. [ 2 ]
The problem of points, also called the problem of division of the stakes, is a classical problem in probability theory.One of the famous problems that motivated the beginnings of modern probability theory in the 17th century, it led Blaise Pascal to the first explicit reasoning about what today is known as an expected value.
Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and theologian. [1] This argument posits that individuals essentially engage in a life-defining gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God .
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) published his first poem at the age of 10; at the age of 13 years, he published a book of political satire poems. [28]Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr. (1902–1983) learned to speak Esperanto as a five-year-old and since the age of six had written and submitted rhymes to newspapers and magazines.