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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal. A new translation with historical introduction and notes by Rev. Thomas M'Crie, preceded by a life of Pascal, a critical essay, and a biographical notice. Edited by O. W. Wight. 1887. p. 480. Archived from the original on June 16, 2021 – via Open Library, Internet Archive.
In 2023, Pope Francis released an apostolic letter, Sublimitas et miseria hominis, dedicated to Blaise Pascal, in commemoration of the fourth centenary of his birth. Pascal influenced both French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu , who named his Pascalian Meditations (1997) after him, [ 64 ] and French philosopher Louis Althusser .
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]
Earlier this year Pope Francis, wrote a letter, “On the Greatness and Misery of Man,” to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Pascal’s birth. It’s remarkable because Francis is the church ...
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.
The term became pejorative following Blaise Pascal's attack on the misuse of the method in his Provincial Letters (1656–57). [7] The French mathematician, religious philosopher and Jansenist sympathiser attacked priests who used casuistic reasoning in confession to pacify wealthy church donors. Pascal charged that "remorseful" aristocrats ...
Furthermore, although Pascal's letters to Charlotte de Roannez are not, for Gazier for example, [113] entirely responsible for her plan to become a nun, the Roannez family is extremely hostile towards Blaise Pascal, to the point that the scholar misses being stabbed by their concierge while he is staying in the apartments that Artus Gouffier ...
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