Blaise Pascal - Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker About God ( torrent

Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker About God
by Donald Adamson
St Martin's Press | December1994 | ISBN: O-312-12502-X | 320 Pages | PDF | 19.4 mb

This volume features a chronological survey exploring Pascal's (1623-62) achievement as a mathematician, physicist and religious thinker, and 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 distinctive features, thematic and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works and the Wager argument are also studied.

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Foundations
3 Jansenism
4 A 'God-Inebriated Man'
5 The Provincial Letters
6 The Christian Life
7 Human Nature
8 The Wager
9 The Scriptures
10 Pascal, 'Devout Geometrician'
11 Conclusion
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
A List of Pascals Writings
Index

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