THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE
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The difference between the mathematical and the
intuitive mind.[1]—­In the one the principles
are palpable, but removed from ordinary use; so that
for want of...
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The French scientist and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a precocious and influential mathematical writer, a master of the French language, and a great religious philosopher.Blaise Pascal wa...
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Blaise Pascal--scientist, theologian, philosopher, and rhetorician--was born in Clermont, in Auvergne, on 19 June 1623. Few writers of the seventeenth century have been as subject to hagiographic trea...
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Although Blaise Pascal can be seen in retrospect as an important scientist in his time, he was a controversial figure to his contemporaries. There is no doubt that Pascal was of a superior intelligenc...
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Although Blaise Pascal can be seen in retrospect as an important scientist in his time, he was a controversial figure to his contemporaries. There is no doubt that Pascal was of a superior intelligenc...
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In his short life, Blaise Pascal was able to make major contributions to many of the fields of science that were rapidly developing in the seventeenth century, including projective geometry probabilit...
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In his short life, Blaise Pascal was able to make major contributions to many of the fields of science that were rapidly developing in the seventeenth century, including projective geometry probabilit...
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