Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19June 162319August 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 projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections 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, in 1647 he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum.
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 why one should believe in God. 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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Texte primitif des Lettres provinciales, d'après un exemplaire in-4 ̊(1656-1657) ou se trouvent des corrections en écriture du temps ; éd. contenant outre ces corrections toutes... by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Les pensées sur la religion. : Choisies, classées, et annotées par J. Calvet. by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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The provincial letters by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Pascal par lui-même by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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The essential Pascal by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Pensees by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Lettres écrites à un provincial, précédées d'une notice sur Pascal considéré comme écrivain et comme moraliste by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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... Lettres écrites à un provincial (I, IV, V, XIII). by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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OEuvres de Blaise Pascal; by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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The thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Pensées, by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Oeuvres complètes by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Pensées. by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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The provincial letters by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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The provincial letters ; Pensées ; Scientific treatises by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Discours sur les passions de l'amour attribué à Pascal, avec un commentaire de Émile Faguet. by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Selected thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Pensées by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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Pensées de Pascal sur la religion : et sur quelques autres sujets. by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
Paris : Garnier Freres, 1920
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The mind on fire : an anthology of the writings of Blaise Pascal by Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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