Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal: mathematician, physicist, and thinker about God

by Adamson, Donald

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Pascal has long been regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile of the world's thinkers. This chronological and carefully annotated survey explores the full range of his intellectual achievements. It also includes a chapter on his life. Renowned as mathematician, physicist, scourge of Jesuit moral theology, and staunch, though perceptive, champion of Christianity, Pascal devoted himself in full measure to science and religion. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, numbe…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Blaise Pascal : mathematician, physicist, and thinker about God / Donald Adamson.

Summary

Pascal has long been regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile of the world's thinkers. This chronological and carefully annotated survey explores the full range of his intellectual achievements. It also includes a chapter on his life. Renowned as mathematician, physicist, scourge of Jesuit moral theology, and staunch, though perceptive, champion of Christianity, Pascal devoted himself in full measure to science and religion. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. So, too, is his notorious prize competition on the cycloid and its aftermath. The author's analysis of the Provincial Letters and the unfinished Thoughts emphasises their many distinctive features, both thematic and technical. He discusses Pascal's lesser known works, all of them pertaining to theology or the philosophy of religion. Blaise Pascal contains a chapter on the famous wager argument and a wide-ranging bibliography.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):St. Martin's
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:1995.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 297 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:031212502X, 9780312125028, 0333550366, 9780333550366
  • oclc:ocm31131634
  • LC Classification:Q143.P17
  • Dewey Decimal:194

Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Foundations -- 3. Jansenism -- 4. A 'God-inebriated man' -- 5. Provincial letters -- 6. Christian life -- 7. Human nature -- 8. Wager -- 9. Scriptures -- 10. Pascal, 'devout geometrician' -- 11. Conclusion

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Subjects

Biographies Biography France History Pascal, Blaise Philosophers Philosophers -- Biography. -- France Philosophes -- Biographies. -- France Philosophie -- Histoire Philosophy Philosophy -- History Science Science -- history Sciences -- Histoire Scientists Scientists -- Biography. -- France

Writers

Adamson, Donald

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