| Blaise Pascal |
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 Painting of Pascal made by François II Quesnel for Gérard Edelinck in 1691 |
| Kamundagan | (1623-06-19)19 Hunyo 1623
Clermont-Ferrand,
Auvergne, France |
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| Kagadanan | 19 Agosto 1662(1662-08-19) (edad 39)
Paris, France |
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| Nasyunalidad | French |
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| Era | 17th-century philosophy |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
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| School | Cartesianism
Jansenism
Fideism |
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Main interests | - Theology
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Physics
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Notable ideas | - Probability theory
- Pascal's wager
- Pascal's triangle
- Pascal's law
- Pascal's theorem
- Pascal's calculator
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Influences
- St. Augustine of Hippo
- Michel de Montaigne
- Étienne Pascal
- René Descartes
- Gilles de Roberval[1]
- Cornelius Jansen
- Epictetus
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Gerolamo Cardano[2]
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Influenced
- William Lane Craig
- Antoine Arnauld
- Pierre Duhem
- William James
- G. W. Leibniz
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Henri Bergson
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Si Blaise Pascal ( pask-AL, -AHL, PASK-əl, -al, US: pah-SKAHL;[3][4][5][6][7] Pranses: [blɛz paskal]; 19 Hunyo 1623 – 19 Agosto 1662) sarong Pranses na matematiko, pisiko, imbentor, pilosopo, parasurat asin Katolikong teologo.
Saro siyang child prodigy na tinukduan kan saiyang ama, sarong mambububwis sa Rouen. An gibo ni Pascal sa matematika iyo an conic sections; nagsurat siya nin significant treatise sa mga temang projective geometry sa edad na 16. Nagsurat man siya kaiba ni Pierre de Fermat sa probability theory, na nakaimpluwensya sa modernong ekonomiya asin agham panlipunan. Kan 1642, siya sarong teenager, nagpuon siya magtrabaho sa mga makina sa pagkalkula (inaapod na Pascal's calculators na naging Pascalines), na siya nagin saro sa duwang imbentor kan mechanical calculator.[8][9]
- "Essai pour les coniques" [Essay on conics] (1639)
- Experiences nouvelles touchant le vide [New experiments with the vacuum] (1647)
- Récit de la grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs [Account of the great experiment on equilibrium in liquids] (1648)
- Traité du triangle arithmétique [Treatise on the arithmetical triangle] (written c. 1654;[10] publ. 1665)
- Lettres provinciales [The provincial letters] (1656–57)
- De l'Esprit géométrique [On the geometrical spirit] (1657 or 1658)
- Écrit sur la signature du formulaire (1661)
- Pensées [Thoughts] (incomplete at death; publ. 1670)
- Scientific revolution
- List of pioneers in computer science
- List of works by Eugène Guillaume
- Adamson, Donald. Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist, and Thinker about God (1995) ISBN 0-333-55036-6
- Adamson, Donald. "Pascal's Views on Mathematics and the Divine," Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study (eds. T. Koetsier and L. Bergmans. Amsterdam: Elsevier 2005), pp. 407–21.
- Broome, J.H. Pascal. (London: E. Arnold, 1965). ISBN 0-7131-5021-1
- Davidson, Hugh M. Blaise Pascal. (Boston: Twayne Publishers), 1983.
- Devlin, Keith (2008). The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-00910-7.
- Farrell, John. "Pascal and Power". Chapter seven of Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau (Cornell UP, 2006).
- Goldmann, Lucien, The hidden God; a study of tragic vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the tragedies of Racine (original ed. 1955, Trans. Philip Thody. London: Routledge, 1964).
- Groothuis, Douglas. On Pascal. (Belmont: Wadsworth, 2002). ISBN 978-0534583910
- Jordan, Jeff. Pascal's Wager: Pragmatic Arguments and Belief in God. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006).
- Landkildehus, Søren. "Kierkegaard and Pascal as kindred spirits in the Fight against Christendom" in Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions (ed. Jon Stewart. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2009).
- Mackie, John Leslie. The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
- Pugh, Anthony R. The Composition of Pascal's Apologia, (University of Toronto Press, 1984).
- Saka, Paul (2001). "Pascal's Wager and the Many Gods Objection". Religious Studies 37 (3): 321–41. doi:10.1017/S0034412501005686.
- Stephen, Leslie. "Pascal". Studies of a Biographer. 2. London: Duckworth and Co. pp. 241–284.
- Tobin, Paul. "The Rejection of Pascal's Wager: A Skeptic's Guide to the Bible and the Historical Jesus". authorsonline.co.uk, 2009.
- Yves Morvan, Pascal à Mirefleurs ? Les dessins de la maison de Domat, Impr. Blandin, 1985. (FRBNF40378895)
- Oeuvres complètes, volume 2 (1858) Paris: Libraire de L Hachette et Cie, link from HathiTrust.
- Works by Blaise Pascal at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Blaise Pascal at Internet Archive
- Mga gibo ni Blaise Pascal sa LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The Correspondence of Blaise Pascal in EMLO
- Simpson, David. ""Blaise Pascal"". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Clarke, Desmond. "Blaise Pascal". In Zalta, Edward N. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Si Blaise Pascal sa Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Pensées de Blaise Pascal. Renouard, Paris 1812 (2 vols.) (Plantilya:ULBDD)
- Discussion of the Pascaline, its history, mechanism, surviving examples, and modern replicas at http://things-that-count.net Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine.
- Pascal's Memorial in orig. French/Latin and modern English, trans. Elizabeth T. Knuth.
- Biography, Bibliography. (in French)
- Mga gibo ni Blaise Pascal sa Open Library
- BBC Radio 4. In Our Time: Pascal.
- Blaise Pascal featured on the 500 French Franc banknote in 1977. Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- Blaise Pascal's works: text, concordances and frequency lists
- Plantilya:Cite CE1913
- Etext of Pascal's Pensées (English, in various formats)
- Etext of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales (English)
- Etext of a number of Pascal's minor works (English translation) including, De l'Esprit géométrique and De l'Art de persuader.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Blaise Pascal", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews
