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@ TELEGRAM: “WE SAIL WITHIN A VAST SPHERE, EVER DRIFTING IN UNCERTAINTY, DRIVEN FROM END TO END.“ BLAISE PASCAL BLAISE PASCAL WAS A FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN, PHYSICIST, INVENTOR, PHILOSOPHER, WRITER, AND CATHOLIC THEOLOGIAN. HE WAS A CHILD PRODIGY WHO WAS EDUCATED BY HIS FATHER, A TAX COLLECTOR IN ROUEN. PASCAL'S EARLIEST MATHEMATICAL WORK WAS ON CONIC SECTIONS; HE WROTE A SIGNIFICANT TREATISE ON THE SUBJECT OF PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY AT THE AGE OF 16. HE LATER CORRESPONDED WITH PIERRE DE FERMAT ON PROBABILITY THEORY, STRONGLY INFLUENCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ECONOMICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. IN 1642, WHILE STILL A TEENAGER, HE STARTED SOME PIONEERING WORK ON CALCULATING MACHINES (CALLED PASCAL'S CALCULATORS AND LATER PASCALINES), ESTABLISHING HIM AS ONE OF THE FIRST TWO INVENTORS OF THE MECHANICAL CALCULATOR. 00:00 BLAISE PASCAL 03:49 PHILOSOPHY 05:26 PASCAL'S WAGER 07:27 PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS 09:14 LETTRES PROVINCIALES / PROVINCIAL LETTERS 11:24 PENSÉES / THOUGHTS MANY IMAGES IN THIS VIDEO ARE IMAGES IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. I USE TO THESE IMAGES FOR VIDEOS. THIS VIDEO CONTAINS PHRASES / QUOTES BY BLAISE PASCAL. #blaisepascal #historyandphilosophy #philosophy #pascalswager #education #philosophyofreligion #philosophyofmathematics #fideism #innabesedina #pascal #westernphilosophy #knowledge #frenchphilosophy #cartesianism #jansenism #theology #studying #philosophical #philosophicalthoughts #smartquotes #cleverquotes #thoughts #beautifulthoughts #beautiful #beautifulquotes #educational #educationalvideo #intellectual #intellectualquotes #philosophicalvideo #philosophicalideas #philosophicalreflections #reflections #philosophicalquotes #selfimprovement #selfgrowth #selfdevelopment #development
