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Aug 21, 2007 · One of the most famous and most extensive notes in the Pensées (Fragment 397: II, 676–81) is the so-called ‘wager’ in favour of belief in God. Cole (1995, Chapter 15) argues that Pascal exhibited signs of manic depression and an almost infantile dependence on his family in his mature years.
Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian. In mathematics, he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity.
Jan 22, 2024 · Blaise Pascal is known for being a French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He conducted pioneering experiments with barometers, invented a calculating machine, proposed that belief in god was one's best bet (Pascal's wager), and has several mathematical theorems named after him.
Aug 21, 2007 · About the SEP. Special Characters. © Metaphysics Research Lab , CSLI , Stanford University. This is a file in the archives of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Blaise Pascal. First published Tue Aug 21, 2007. Pascal did not publish any philosophical works during his relatively brief lifetime.
Summary. Blaise Pascal was a very influential French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability. View seven larger pictures.
He turned away from scientific work for several years, until in 1658 he completed a full account of the geometry of the cycloid. He died of cancer in 1662 at the age of 39, in Port Royal. Mathematician and inventor Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 19, 1623.
Blaise Pascal, (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France—died Aug. 19, 1662, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. The son of a mathematician, he was a child prodigy, earning the envy of René Descartes with an essay he wrote on conic sections in 1640.
