Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
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French Mathematician Blaise Pascal did much to set in motion what is known today as modern mathematics. An unusually creative mathematician, he developed a number of theorems and mathematical structures, including the beginnings of probability theory and a more sophisticated understanding of the mostra'n més geometry of conic structures. At the age of 16, Pascal wrote a brilliant paper on conics; the paper consisted of one single printed page on which he states his major theorem - the opposite sides of any hexagon inscribed in a cone intersect in a straight line. This theorem led Pascal to develop several hundred related theorems in geometry. Pascal's activities, however, were not confined to pure mathematics. When he was about 19 years old, he built a calculating machine that he demonstrated to the king of France. It worked well enough to allow him to build and sell about 50 of them over a few years' time. His work on problems in atmospheric pressure eventually resulted in an early version of the gas law. At the age of 25, Pascal entered a Jansenist monastery to begin an ascetic life of study and argument. However, he continued his mathematical work. With Pierre de Fermat, Pascal laid the foundation for the theory of probability. In 1654, Pascal's friend, the Chevelier de Mere, had asked him to analyze a problem arising from a game of chance. Pascal in turn exchanged a number of letters with Fermat about the problem. This correspondence became the starting point for a theory of probability. However, neither published the ideas developed in the correspondence. The letters did inspire one of Pascal's contemporaries, Christian Huygens of Holland, to publish in 1657 a short tract on the mathematics of games involving dice. Pascal's name is now attached to "Pascals' Triangle" of binomial coefficients which plays and important role in the study combinations and probability. The triangle was known at least 600 years before Pascal became interested in it, but because of his contributions to its study, the triangle eventually became associated with his name. A sensitive and temperamental man, Pascal was obsessed with religious philosophy, a subject on which he wrote extensively. In his general philosophy he was very much taken with the concept of the infinite, which unsettled him and inspired in him a sense of awe. Over a period of years, he wrote on many religious, philosophical, and mathematical subjects. His notes and letters were edited and published posthumously as his Pensees. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Blaise Pascal
The Mind on Fire: An Anthology of the Writings of Blaise Pascal (Classics of Faith and Devotion) (1989) 267 exemplars
Pensees: No 1 18 exemplars
Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language… (2004) 17 exemplars
Gedanken : eine Auswahl 11 exemplars
Tankar. 2 11 exemplars
Delphi Collected Works of Blaise Pascal (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eleven Book 2) (2020) 7 exemplars
The physical treatises of Pascal; the equilibrium of liquids and the weight of the mass of the air (1973) 6 exemplars
Pascal 6 exemplars
Pensées sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets, qui ont esté trouvées après sa mort parmy ses papiers (2011) 6 exemplars
Scientific Treatises 6 exemplars
Pensamentos escolhidos 5 exemplars
Coleção Grandes Obras do Pensamento Universal (pascal - Do Espítito Geométrico / Pensamentos) (2006) 5 exemplars
Gedachten over den Mensch en zijn Leven 4 exemplars
Discurso acerca de las pasiones del amor y otros opúsculos (Centzontle (Paperback)) (2010) 4 exemplars
(Blaise) Pascal Pensées / Brunschvicg / Léon Brunschvicg --- (Edition Lutetia - Nelson Editeurs Paris -… (1949) 4 exemplars
Les provinciales : (extraits) avec une notice biographique une notice historique et littéraire 3 exemplars
Tankar och Smärre Skrifter 3 exemplars
The life of Mr. Paschal with his letters relating to the Jesuits. In two volumes. Translated into English by W. A. (2010) 3 exemplars
Pascal's Pensees & The Provincial Letters. 3 exemplars
Blaise Pascal : Oeuvres compltes - annotes et en franais moderne - Arvensa Editions (French Edition) 3 exemplars
Die Kunst zu überzeugen und die anderen kleineren philosophischen und religiösen Schriften (1963) 3 exemplars
uvres compltes / 3 exemplars
Myśli oraz Rozprawa o kondycji możnych ; Modlitwa o dobry użytek chorób ; Rozprawa o namiętnościach… (2004) 2 exemplars
Pascal 2 exemplars
Les provinciales : extraits 2 exemplars
Os Pensadores 16 . Volume XVI . Pascal 2 exemplars
Opuscoli e lettere 2 exemplars
Oeuvres Completes 2 exemplars
Les provinciales II 2 exemplars
L'œuvre de Pascal 2 exemplars
Os pensadores: Pascal 2 exemplars
O Espírito da Geometria - Da Arte de Persuadir 2 exemplars
Gedanken 2 exemplars
Le manuscrit des Pensées de Pascal 2 exemplars
Les provinciales, Ecrits des curés de Paris (Pierre Nicole et Jean Racine), Lettres (Le père Daniel),… 2 exemplars
Thoughts [Part II] 2 exemplars
Thoughts [Part I] 2 exemplars
Lettres crites un provincial / 2 exemplars
La morale dei gesuiti (dalle Provinciali) 2 exemplars
Τα πάθη του έρωτα 2 exemplars
Svět Blaise Pascala 2 exemplars
Opuscoli e lettere 2 exemplars
Blaise Pascal. Les Provinciales : . Écrits des curés de Paris. Pierre Nicole et Jean Racine. Lettres. Le Père… (1962) 2 exemplars
Pascal 2 exemplars
Discours sur la religion et sur quelques autres sujets qui ont été trouvés après sa mort parmi ses papiers (1992) 2 exemplars
La morale dei gesuiti 2 exemplars
Eloge et Pensees de Pascal: v. 80A (Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire) (Vol 80A) (French Edition) (2008) 2 exemplars
Blaise Pascal. Lettres écrites à un Provincial : . Chronologie et introduction par Antoine Adam (1967) 1 exemplars
Lettre à un provincial 1 exemplars
The Gospel of the Gospels: Abrege De LA Vie De Jesus Christ (Archives of Ancient Art) (English, French and French… (1999) 1 exemplars
New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum 1 exemplars
Pascal - De Store Tænkere 1 exemplars
Pascal: Pensamentos 1 exemplars
Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum 1 exemplars
Pascal. Les Provinciales ou les Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux… 1 exemplars
Pensées et opuscules philosophiques, extraits... avec une notice... par Fernand Flutre,... 1 exemplars
Pascal. Provinciales . Lettres I, II, IV, XIII, publiées avec une notice biographique, une notice… 1 exemplars
Pensees - Enhanced (Illustrated) 1 exemplars
Pascal Pens̩es 1 exemplars
PROVINCIALES - COLLECTION LIBERTE N°6 1 exemplars
Solitudine e storia. Antologia degli scritti 1 exemplars
Pensees de B. Pascal: edition de 1670 1 exemplars
Refleksije u samoći 1 exemplars
Geist und Herz eine Auswahl aus dem Gesamtwerk 1 exemplars
opuscoli e commenti della vita di Gesù Cristo 1 exemplars
Oeuvres Completes de Blaise Pascal, vol I 1 exemplars
Myšlenky 1 exemplars
Pensées su la religion (2 Vols) 1 exemplars
Oeuvres De Blaise Pascal, Pub. Suivant L'ordre Chronologique Avec Documents Complémentaires, Introductions Et Notes,… (2012) 1 exemplars
Discours de la condition de l'homme 1 exemplars
Pensées. Choisies par G. Michaut 1 exemplars
Pascal. Pensées et Opuscules : . Avec une notice biographique, une notice historique et littéraire, des… (1954) 1 exemplars
LES PROVINCIALES de Blaise Pascal. Avec une préface et des notes par Auguste Molinier. (2 volumes) 1 exemplars
Les Pensées de Blaise Pascal. Texte revu sur le manuscrit autographe - Tome I et II - 2 volumes 1 exemplars
Thoughts on Religion, and Other Curious Subjects. Written Originally in French by Monsieur Pascal. Translated Into… (2018) 1 exemplars
Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle 1 exemplars
Pensieri Lettere provinciali 1 exemplars
Œuvre 1 exemplars
On Geometrical Demonstration 1 exemplars
L'homme est un roseau pensant: Pensées (Liasses I-XV) (Folio Sagesses) (French Edition) (2016) 1 exemplars
Pensées or, Thoughts on Religion 1 exemplars
Pensees and The Provincial Letters — Autor — 1 exemplars
Frammenti vol. 2. Testo francese a fronte 1 exemplars
Generation of conic sections 1 exemplars
Frammenti vol. 1. Testo francese a fronte 1 exemplars
Misli 1 exemplars
Lettres Provinciales: Book I 1 exemplars
Selected Thoughts of Blaise Pascal 1 exemplars
Coleção Os Pensadores: Pensamentos 1 exemplars
Pensées présenté par Jean Guitton 1 exemplars
The Harvard Classics, Vol. 48: Blaise Pascal 1 exemplars
Lettres provinciales 1 exemplars
New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum ; Account of the Great Experiment Concerning the Equilibrium of Fluids 1 exemplars
Pensées; notes on religion and other subjects 1 exemplars
Minor Works of Blaise Pascal 1 exemplars
Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle ; Correspondence with Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities 1 exemplars
Les pensées de Pascal : reproduites d'après le texte autographe, disposées selon le plan… 1 exemplars
PENSEES - THE PROVINICAL LETTERS 1 exemplars
Les Pensées : De Blaise Pascal, présentées dans un ordre nouveau par Marcel Guersant, suivies des Opuscules… 1 exemplars
Oeuvres choisies 1 exemplars
Les provinciales I 1 exemplars
Pascal. Pensées : Extraits. Avec une notice biographique... des notes... par Robert Barrault 1 exemplars
Pascal - Colecao os Pensadores - Volume XVI 1 exemplars
Do espírito geométrico e Da arte de persuadir: E outros escritos de ciência, política e… 1 exemplars
Voilà ce que c'est que la foi: 15 textes présentés et commentés par Jean de Saint-Cheron (2023) 1 exemplars
The Penses / 1 exemplars
Variety 1 exemplars
Oeuvres Completes, tomes I,II,III,IV 1 exemplars
Pensées - Enhanced Version 1 exemplars
Sentez 1 exemplars
Les Provinciales 1 exemplars
The World's Great Classics Pensees 1 exemplars
Gedanken mit den Anmerkungen Voltaires 1 exemplars
Pensées, Fragments Et Lettres de Blaise Pascal, Vol. 2: Publiés pour la Première Fois Conformément aux Manuscrits… (2017) 1 exemplars
Selections from the Thoughts of Pascal 1 exemplars
Moralistes français. Pensées de Blaise Pascal; Réflexions et maximes de La Rochefoucauld 1 exemplars
Pascal's pensées : or, thoughts on religion 1 exemplars
Pansees, The Provincial Letters 1 exemplars
Opuscules et lettres de Pascal 1 exemplars
Das Ich besteht in meinem Denken: Aus den »Gedanken«. [Was bedeutet das alles?] (Reclams… (2017) 1 exemplars
Thoughts : Letters ; Minor works 1 exemplars
Les provinciales de Pascal 1 exemplars
Selections from the Thoughts of Pascal, translated from the French, with an introduction by Benjamin E. Smith (1902) 1 exemplars
Œuvres de Blaise Pascal 1 exemplars
Oeuvres completes 1 exemplars
[Pensieri] 2 1 exemplars
Pascal's apology for religion 1 exemplars
Pensées de Pascal, publiées d'après le texte authentique... avec des notes... et une notice… (1879) 1 exemplars
El la "Pensoj" de Blazio Paskalo 1 exemplars
Scrieri alese 1 exemplars
El hombre con Dios (Pensamientos) 1 exemplars
Prose scientifiche e filosofiche 1 exemplars
Les Provinciales ou Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. Peres… 1 exemplars
Œuvres, tome IV 1 exemplars
Œuvres, tome V 1 exemplars
Tankar : II 1 exemplars
Pensieri Misero, grande uomo 1 exemplars
Thoughts - An Apology for Christianity 1 exemplars
Relación de la gran experiencia del equilibrio de los líquidos Récit de la grande… (1981) 1 exemplars
Les Provinviales ; Penseés 1 exemplars
Pascal. Pensées et opuscles 1 exemplars
Pensées de Pascal, suivi du Discours de la méthode, par Descartes (French Edition) (2020) 1 exemplars
Blaise Pascal. Pensées et opuscules : Publiés avec une introduction, des notices, des notes par M.… (1946) 1 exemplars
Les provinciales ; Ecrits des curés de Paris ; Lettres ; Réponse aux provinciales [Bibliothèque de Cluny] 1 exemplars
Pensieri. Terza ed. Traduzione introduzione e note di Paolo Serini. I millenni; 56. (1962) 1 exemplars
Pascals Breve 1 exemplars
Discours sur les passions de l'amour - avec des vers inédits - collection "Classiques" (1947) 1 exemplars
Pensees de Blaise Pascal Sur La Religion Et Sur Quelques Autres Sujets... (French Edition) (2012) 1 exemplars
Auswahl und Einleitung: Reinhold Schneider 1 exemplars
De l'esprit géométrique : Ecrits sur la Grâce et autres textes by Blaise Pascal (1993-03-05) (1656) 1 exemplars
PENSÉES (PENSEES). A Limited Edition. A Volume in the 100 (One Hundred) Greatest Books of All Time Series. 1 exemplars
Éloge [par Condorcet] et Pensées de Pascal. Nouv. éd., commentée; corr. & augm. par Mr. de*** [Voltaire] 1 exemplars
Il mistero di Cristo : il Memoriale, il mistero di Gesù, dai Pensieri, compendio della vita di G. C. 1 exemplars
Le Coeur et ses raisons / Logik des Herzens. Zweisprachig. Auswahl, Übersetzung und Nachwort von Fritz Paepcke. (1963) 1 exemplars
Pascal. Les Provinciales : Ou les Lettres écrites par Louis de Montalte à un provincial de ses amis et aux RR. PP.… (1965) 1 exemplars
Pensieri scelta 1 exemplars
A Prayer For The Right use Of Serious Illness 1 exemplars
Lettres écrites a un provincial 1 exemplars
Pensées. Notes on religion and other subjects. Edited with an introduction and notes by Louis Lafuma. Translated… (1961) 1 exemplars
Pensées de Pascal . suivies d'un choix des pensées de Nicole et de son traité de la paix avec les hommes 1 exemplars
Selected Thoughts of Blaise Pascal. Translated and edited by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (1900) 1 exemplars
Tankar 1 1 exemplars
Oeuvres complètes de Blaise Pascal 1 exemplars
PENSEES 2 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Philosopher's Handbook: Essential Readings from Plato to Kant (2000) — Col·laborador — 200 exemplars
The Middle Ages to the 17th Century: Literature of the Western World (1961) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 23 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Pascal, Blaise
- Altres noms
- Montalte, Louis de
- Data de naixement
- 1623-06-19
- Data de defunció
- 1662-08-19
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris, France
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- France
- Lloc de naixement
- Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Lloc de defunció
- Paris, France
- Llocs de residència
- Clermont-Ferrand, France
Paris, France
Rouen, France
Port-Royal Abbey, Paris, France - Educació
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- Périer-Pascal, Gilberte (zuster)
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- Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His parents were Antoinette Bégon and Étienne Pascal, a local magistrate and presiding judge of the tax court there. He had two sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. Their mother died in 1626, when Blaise was three, and a few years later the family moved to Paris. Étienne Pascal, also a mathematician and natural philosopher who was proficient in Latin and Greek, devoted himself to the education of his children, who all showed exceptional abilities. Although often ill and in pain, Blaise proved to be talented in mathematics and science from a young age. In 1640, at age 16. he published an essay on conic sections, Essai pour les coniques, which won praise as an important contribution to the relatively new field of projective geometry. Between 1642 and 1644, Pascal conceived and constructed a calculating device, known as the Pascaline, the world's first mechanical calculator. In 1646, Etienne fell and fractured his leg and seriously injured his hip; he received medical treatment from two brothers who were disciples of Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, abbé de Saint-Cyran and director of the abbey of Port-Royal in Paris. The abbé Saint-Cyran had introduced an austere moral and theological creed known as Jansenism and the whole Pascal family converted. Pascal became devoutly religious and his sister Jacqueline eventually became a Jansenist nun. Over the next few years, Pascal tested the theories of Galileo and of Evangelista Torricelli. In a famous experiment in 1648, he had his brother-in-law take barometric readings at various altitudes on the Puy-de-Dôme, the highest mountain in the Auvergne, so he could test Torricelli's ideas on atmospheric pressure. During this time, Pascal invented the syringe and the hydraulic press. The years 1651–1654 were another period of intense scientific work for Pascal, during which he composed treatises on the equilibrium of liquid solutions, on the weight and density of air, and on the arithmetic triangle. Together with Pierre de Fermat, he created the calculus of probabilities. Pascal had a carriage accident in November 1654 in which he narrowly escaped death, and considered this a summons to begin a new life in seclusion from the world. He entered the abbey of Port-Royal and remained there until his death at age 39 in 1662. The two works for which he is chiefly remembered, Lettres Provinciales (1657) and the Pensées (1658), date from the years of his life at Port-Royal. Pascal's contributions to science have been honored in a variety of ways. In 1972, Nicklaus Wirth named his new computer language Pascal. The Pascal (symbol Pa) is the unit of pressure designated by the International System of Units.
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