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6) The unfinished game: Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern
Author
Series
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"In a major biography of Blaise Pascal, James Connor explores both the intellectual giant whose theory of probability paved the way for modernity and the devout religious mystic who dared apply probability to faith. A child prodigy, Pascal made essential additions to Descartes's work at age sixteen. By age nineteen, he had invented the world's first mechanical calculator. But despite his immense contributions to modern science and mathematical thinking,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world...Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it follows them in their travels and exiles, the narrative describes...
Author
Publisher
W.B. Eerdmans
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
The author examines the thoughts and writings of seventeenth-century French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal; and addresses philosophical, theological, and apologetic issues on the meaning of life.
