Pascal's Pensees by Blaise Pascal Paperback Book

Description: Pascal's Pensees by Blaise Pascal The Penses ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascals religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Penses was in many ways his lifes work. It represented Pascals defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascals wager" stems from a portion of this work. Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 - 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascals earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry 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, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascals calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.Like his contemporary Ren 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, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum in 1647.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 Lettres provinciales and the Penses, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. The latter contains Pascals Wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine, a fideistic probabilistic argument for Gods existence. 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.Throughout his life, Pascal was in frail health, especially after the age of 18; he died just two months after his 39th birthday. (wikipedia.org) FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Details ISBN Author Blaise Pascal Pages 236 Publisher Bibliotech Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9798888304235 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-01-09 Imprint Bibliotech Press DEWEY FIC Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139412662;

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