Pascal

Author : Graeme Hunter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442667006

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Pascal the Philosopher by Graeme Hunter Pdf

Blaise Pascal has always been appreciated as a literary giant and a religious guide, but has received only grudging recognition as a philosopher: philosophers have mistaken Pascal’s harsh criticism of their discipline as a rejection of it. But according to Graeme Hunter, Pascal’s critics have simply failed to grasp his lean, but powerful conception of philosophy. This accessibly written book provides the first introduction to Pascal’s philosophy as an organic whole. Hunter argues that Pascal’s aim is not merely to humble philosophy, but to save it from a kind of failure to which it is prone. He lays out Pascal’s development of a more promising and fruitful path for philosophical inquiry, one that responded to the scientific, religious, and political upheaval of his time. Finally, Hunter illuminates Pascal’s significance for contemporary readers, allowing him to emerge as the rare philosopher who is spiritual, literary, and rigorous all at once – both a brilliant controversialist and a thinker of substance.

Author : Stephen C. Bold
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : France
ISBN : 2600001557

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Pascal Geometer by Stephen C. Bold Pdf

Author : Jacques Chevalier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3923525

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Pascal by Jacques Chevalier Pdf

Author : D. Adamson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230377028

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Blaise Pascal by D. Adamson Pdf

This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783628616181

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Introduction to Lux Pascal by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

Lux Pascal is a modern programming language designed for high-performance parallel computing, especially in the field of scientific computing and data processing. It is an extension of Pascal language and provides a rich set of features, such as support for arrays, matrices, complex numbers, and built-in functions for mathematical operations. Lux Pascal aims to enable developers to write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code, while also providing a simple and intuitive syntax. One of the key strengths of Lux Pascal is its use of data parallelism, which allows multiple data items to be processed simultaneously. This is achieved through the use of parallel loops, which can distribute data across multiple cores or processors. Additionally, Lux Pascal provides a set of built-in functions for task parallelism, which allows developers to create multiple threads and execute them concurrently. With these features, Lux Pascal is well-suited for numerical computations, data analytics, and simulations, as well as other performance-critical applications.

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9785835403448

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Introduction to Pedro Pascal by Gilad James, PhD Pdf

Pedro Pascal is a Chilean-American actor who has gained fame for his roles in television shows and movies. He was born on April 2, 1975, in Santiago, Chile. Pascal grew up in Orange County, California after his family fled the political turmoil in Chile. He attended the Orange County School of the Arts and later studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained in acting. Pascal's breakthrough role was in the hit Netflix series Narcos, where he played the role of DEA agent Javier Peña. He has also had notable roles in television shows such as Game of Thrones, where he played Prince Oberyn Martell, and The Mandalorian, where he played the titular character. Pascal has also appeared in movies such as Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Great Wall, and Wonder Woman 1984. Pascal has received critical acclaim for his performances and has been nominated for several awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in The Mandalorian.

Author : Bart B. Bruehler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625641700

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Holding Hands with Pascal by Bart B. Bruehler Pdf

Holding Hands with Pascal is about the story of one family's journey to follow Christ with a special-needs child. The chapters intertwine memoir, biblical study, and theological reflection to reveal that weakness is a gift from God that is indispensable for our discipleship. Ranging from creation through daily life to the return of Jesus, a father tells of how the unusual and challenging life of his son, Pascal, has affected their entire family and where they have found morsels of grace in scripture and community to help sustain them. For families with special-needs children, groups seeking to grow as disciples, and churches seeking a way of faith-in-weakness, Holding Hands with Pascal offers insights and an inspiration for the way.

Author : Jan Miel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421434247

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Pascal and Theology by Jan Miel Pdf

Originally published in 1970. The question of man's freedom to exercise his will—as active an issue among twentieth-century philosophers and theologians as it was in the Jesuit and Jansenist camps known to Pascal—is basic to this study. Pascal's theological thinking, which Professor Miel demonstrates to be the source of unity and coherence in virtually all phases of his thought, is preoccupied by a concern for man's limitations. In his analysis of Pascal's theology, Miel is concerned not only with characterizing Pascal's theological position but also with evaluating it in terms of the history of the church. In a concise and lucid review of the Christian doctrine of grace from the pre-Augustinians through the Renaissance, the author identifies the intellectual-theological atmosphere that created the need for Pascal's strong defense of Augustinian theology. Miel considers Pascal's Écrits sur la grâce, Lettres provincials, and Pensées as well as shorter compositions and correspondence. He establishes the content of Pascal's vision of grace and free will, noting both its originality and its sense of history. Most importantly, he asserts that Pascal's affirmation of Jansenism predated his association with Port Royal and, indeed, was basic to all his adult thought and work. The author finds in the writings of Pascal a style that anticipates twentieth-century theology, a sophistication that belies charges of Pascal's theological naïveté, and a concern to uphold rather than to undermine doctrinal traditions of the church.

Author : Susan N. Merritt,Allen Stix
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461219026

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Migrating from Pascal to C++ by Susan N. Merritt,Allen Stix Pdf

Many students and programmers familiar with Pascal are now looking to upgrade their skills to a well-structured object-oriented programming language such as C++. This textbook provides such an "upgrade path" by presenting a course on C++ in the spirit of structured programming. Both authors teach this material to a wide variety of students and include numerous programming exercises to test a reader's understanding and to increase their confidence in programming in C++.

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140446456

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Pens閑s by Blaise Pascal Pdf

Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Kristina Bresnen
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781771965446

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Pascal's Fire by Kristina Bresnen Pdf

An unnamed speaker navigates a world where God comes in the shape of a cardinal, speaks in the voice of Georgia O’Keeffe, and paints the desert with bones. Driven by sound, heartbreak, and the baffling limits and possibilities of language, a nameless speaker sets out into a dream-like wilderness where lyric and narrative meet, time dissolves, and figures as various as Moses, the apostle Paul, Virginia Woolf, Blaise Pascal, and Zora Neale Hurston gather in a colloquy. Born from a region of preachers and stuttering prophets, from the gift of tongues and psalms of lament and praise, Pascal’s Fire negotiates the wonder of the unknown and the tension of belief and confronts the vulnerability of speech where it brushes up against death and grief, wind and desert heat, unquenchable thirst and the steady sound of an IV drip.

Author : Christopher Schwaner,Christopher White
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781434916099

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Some Sine and Cosine Identities Obtained from Pascal's Triangle by Christopher Schwaner,Christopher White Pdf

Trigonometric identities were used to simplify expressions of trigonometric functions. Pascal¿s triangle is a triangular arrangement of binomial coefficients. Could it be possible to marry this two? Dr. Christopher White and Dr. Christopher Schwaner explored a new way of using Pascal¿s triangle to find sine and cosine identities by developing formulas and showing procedures to prove how it could be possible. Read on and be amazed at what these brilliant authors came up with.

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780744582

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Pascal's Fire by Keith Ward Pdf

Groundbreaking, ingenious and devastatingly clear, Keith Ward’s Pascal’s Fire is guaranteed to reignite the timeless dispute of whether scientific advancement threatens religious belief. Turning the conventional debate on its head, Ward suggests that the existence of God is actually the best starting-point for a number of the most famous scientific positions. From quantum physics to evolution, the suggestion of an ‘ultimate mind’ adds a new dimension to scientific thought, enhancing rather than detracting from its greatest achievements. Also responding to potential criticisms that his ultimate mind is unrecognisable as the God of Abraham, Ward examines our most fundamental beliefs in a new light. Emerging with a conception of God that is consistent with both science and the world’s major faiths, this ambitious project will fascinate believers and sceptics alike.

Author : Mary Ann Caws
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780237688

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Blaise Pascal by Mary Ann Caws Pdf

Few people have had as many influences on as many different fields as true Renaissance man Blaise Pascal. At once a mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, and engineer, Pascal’s discoveries, experiments, and theories helped usher in a modern world of scientific thought and methodology. In this singular book on this singular genius, distinguished scholar Mary Ann Caws explores the rich contributions of this extraordinary thinker, interweaving his writings and discoveries with an account of his life and career and the wider intellectual world of his time. Caws takes us back to Pascal’s youth, when he was a child prodigy first engaging mathematics through the works of mathematicians such as Father Mersenne. She describes his early scientific experiments and his construction of mechanical calculating machines; she looks at his correspondence with important thinkers such as René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat; she surveys his many inventions, such as the first means of public transportation in Paris; and she considers his later religious exaltations in works such as the “Memorial.” Along the way, Caws examines Pascal’s various modes of writing—whether he is arguing with the strict puritanical modes of church politics, assuming the personality of a naïve provincial trying to understand the Jesuitical approach, offering pithy aphorisms in the Pensées, or meditating on thinking about thinking itself. Altogether, this book lays side by side many aspects of Pascal’s life and work that are seldom found in a single volume: his religious motivations and faith, his scientific passions, and his practical savvy. The result is a comprehensive but easily approachable account of a fascinating and influential figure.

Author : Asher Meekins
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781326688028

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PASCAL by Asher Meekins Pdf

A name of courage, love, loyalty and a Vampire. A prince amongst a coven, Pascal is an extraordinary tale from the deepest recesses of the heart. Pascal is a story of bravery and lust. Falling in love with a human has its battles, but the greatest battle is a fight for his love and a fight that has only just begun. Pascal is a Gothic, gay love story, told with disarming graphic cutting detail. In a period of unrest Queen Ammonite's army must protect the coven and all who reside within.Pascal will take you on a mind-blowing journey, filled with every possible emotion. Follow Pascal deep into the heart of the world he lives in. Pascal will mesmerise you and render you powerless as slowly, you will fall deeply in love with Pascal and his loyal followers and friends