Blaise Pascal really was a gambler—at least when he was young. His highly devout parents, according to Antoine Compagnon in his short book “A Summer With Pascal,” were a bit worried when their ...

Blaise Pascal was a famous French mathematician and philosopher. As a converter to Christianity, Pascal’s beliefs would come to extensively influence the religion and its practice. He also engaged in ...

Après quelques articles où certains textes de Pascal ont été analysés selon les procédures de l'analyse rhétorique biblique, le fragment des Pensées Lafuma 974/Sellier 771 est ici examiné en outre à ...

August 19, 1662. Blaise Pascal died.—A religious philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, the author of the “Provincial Letters” and the “Pensees,” Pascal spent the earlier part of his life in ...