Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God

Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God

by D. Adamson
Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God

Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God

by D. Adamson

Hardcover(1995)

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Overview

This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333550366
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 12/19/1994
Series: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God
Edition description: 1995
Pages: 297
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Foundations - Jansenism - A 'God-Intoxicated Man' - The Provincial Letters - The Christian Life - Human Nature - The Wager - The Scriptures - Pascal, 'Devout Geometrician' - Conclusion - Select Bibliography - Index
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