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In the letters, Pascal's tone combines the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world. Their style meant that, quite apart from their religious influence, the Provincial Letters were popular as a literary work. Adding to that popularity was Pascal's use of humor, mockery, and satire in his arguments.
Blaise Pascal's works: text, concordances and frequency lists "Blaise Pascal" . Catholic Encyclopedia. 1913. Etext of Pascal's Pensées (English, in various formats) Etext of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales (English) Etext of a number of Pascal's minor works (English translation) including, De l'Esprit géométrique and De l'Art de persuader.
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.
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Fermat sent the letters in which he mentioned the case in which n = 3 in 1636, 1640 and 1657. [31] Euler sent a letter to Goldbach on 4 August 1753 in which claimed to have a proof of the case in which n = 3. [32] Euler had a complete and pure elementary proof in 1760, but the result was not published. [33] Later, Euler's proof for n = 3 was ...
1637 – Pierre de Fermat claims to have proven Fermat's Last Theorem in his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. 1637 – First use of the term imaginary number by René Descartes; it was meant to be derogatory. 1643 – René Descartes develops Descartes' theorem. 1654 – Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat create the theory of probability.