Pascal’s Wager is named after Blaise Pascal. He was a 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher. In his works Pensees‚ which means ‘thoughts’‚ is Pascal’s Wager. It was published in 1670. He says that you would gain much more by betting that God does exist. If someone believed that God does exist‚ they would obtain Heaven‚ but if they believed God exists but God doesn’t then they lose nothing. If a person did not believe in God and God does exist‚ then they would obtain Hell and severe misery
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Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ scientist‚ inventor‚ and theologian. In mathematics‚ he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity. Existentialism - a philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will
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1642 Blaise Pascal‚ at age 19‚ invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this gear-driven one-function calculator but couldn’t sell many because of their exorbitant cost and because they really weren’t that accurate. Up until the present age when car dashboards went digital‚ the odometer portion of a car’s speedometer used the very same mechanism as the Pascaline to increment the next wheel after each full revolution of the prior wheel. Pascal was
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Originally Pascal’s Triangle was developed by the Chinese of long ago. But then the French mathematician Blaise Pascal was officially the first person to discover the importance of the patterns it had within itself. But how exactly does it work??? In this research paper‚ I will explain how to make the Pascal’s Triangle and why it is so special. Construction: Pascal’s Triangle is basically a triangle of numbers. “At the tip of the triangle is the number 1‚ which makes up row zero. Then the second
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----------------------- Blaise Pascal said: If all men knew what each said of the other‚ there would not be four friends in the world. Everyone gossips. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Gossip is like an extra-fudge brownie. You know you shouldn’t‚ but you just can’t pass it up. Of course‚ gossip can cause a lot more trouble than a brownie. This is especially true due to the nature of the grapevine. Take a little of what was said‚ add some‚ and have it pass through a couple people’s hands
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How would you respond to Pascal’s wager? Pascal’s Wager is a hugely significant argument in apologetic philosophy‚ it relates to Blaise Pascal’s idea that all humans must wager on the existence of God with their own lives; the foundations of this argument are one of the earliest forms of game theory. The assumptions that are made in this argument are that if you do believe in God the payoff is infinite if God does in fact exist and there must be at least a slight chance that God does in fact exist
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tangents to various curves that was equivalent to differentiation. He obtained a technique for finding the centers of gravity for various plane and solid figures. Also‚ he is considered to be one of the founders of the probability theory along with Blaise Pascal. Fermat was the first person known to have evaluated the integral of general power functions. He made contributions in the field of optics and provided a law on light and travel. He wrote a few papers about calculus‚ before Issac Newton and Gottfried
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W. K. Clifford (1845-1879) was a British philosopher and mathematician. He made a compelling argument regarding ethics of belief. In module two reading‚ he stated that it is always wrong to make a claim without sufficient evidence. William James (1842-1910)‚ on the other hand‚ a philosopher and psychologist‚ took a different approach‚ in which he shared a different view concerning religious belief. Notably‚ both evidentialism and nonevidentialism approach have some merit and validity. I will assess
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Therefore‚ some of the gamblers began to wonder‚ that taking a pair of dice and rolling them a couple of times‚ which has the larger probability of seeing a sum of 9 or seeing a sum of 10? What about seeing double sixes? In a correspondence between Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermat‚ the problems were resolved‚ and this triggered the first theorem in the modern theory of probability. II. BASIC DEFINITIONS Definition 1 In probability theory
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Pierre Fermat’s father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. Pierre had a brother and two sisters and was almost certainly brought up in the town of his birth. Although there is little evidence concerning his school education it must have been at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he gave a
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