About this book
Introduction
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.
Keywords
calculus god number theory
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377028
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1995
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-39013-7
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-37702-8
- About this book