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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.
Read more - Author A. W. Adamson
- ISBN13 9780333550366
- ISBN10 0333550366
- Pages 297
- Published 1994
- Fecha de publicación 19/12/1994
- Language German, French
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Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God (German, French)
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- A. W. Adamson
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- Springer (1994)
- 9780333550366



