Pascal's Last Gamble
Pascal's Last Gamble

Author: Steve Oetting

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-11-23

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781477474440

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Raj Pascal Rex is the most accomplished prosecutor in the San Diego District Attorney's Office. He is The King of trial attorneys. But his hard-charging nature has jeopardized his already shaky relationship with his girlfriend, Grace Schoenfeld. As he takes on the biggest case of his career, Rex will have to decide whether he's willing to risk everything to convict child killer Festus Green. In the process, Rex must confront the meaning of faith. Set in the context of a contemporary legal thriller, Pascal's Last Gamble traverses the realm of philosophy, exploring in depth the dimensions of Pascal's Wager.

The Unfinished Game
The Unfinished Game

Author: Keith Devlin

Publisher:

Published: 2010-03-23

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0465018963

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Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put a numerical value on the likelihood that a particular event would occur. Even the outcome of something as simple as a dice roll or the likelihood of showers instead of sunshine was thought to lie in the realm of pure, unknowable chance. The issue remained intractable until Blaise Pascal wrote to Pierre de Fermat in 1654, outlining a solution to the "unfinished game" problem: how do you divide the pot when players are forced to.

Taking Pascal's Wager
Taking Pascal's Wager

Author: Michael Rota

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0830899995

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Blaise Pascal's wager argues that since there is much to gain and relatively little to lose, the wise decision is to seek a relationship with God and live a Christian life. Michael Rota explores the dynamics of doubt, evidence and decision-making in order to consider what is necessary for people to embrace the Christian faith—and the difference it makes in people's lives.

Gambling on God
Gambling on God

Author: Jeff Jordan

Publisher: Rl Innactive Titles

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780847678334

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Gambling on God brings together a superb collection of new and classic essays that provide the first sustained analysis of Pascal's Wager and the idea of an infinite utility as well as the first in-depth look at moral objections to the Wager.

Pens閑s
Pens閑s

Author: Blaise Pascal

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1995-12

Total Pages: 716

ISBN-13: 0140446451

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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.

Christianity for Modern Pagans
Christianity for Modern Pagans

Author: Peter Kreeft

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780898704525

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Peter Kreeft believes that Baise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to today's uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man--a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor--whom Kreeft thinks was three centuries ahead of his time. His apologetics found in his Pensees are ideal for the modern, sophisticated skeptic.

The Late Mattia Pascal
The Late Mattia Pascal

Author: Luigi Pirandello

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781590171158

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Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as insufferable as the old one. But when he returns to the world he left behind, it's too late: his job is gone, his wife has remarried. Mattia Pascal's fate is to live on as the ghost of the man he was. An explorer of identity and its mysteries, a connoisseur of black humor, Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters. The Late Mattia Pascal, here rendered into English by the outstanding translator William Weaver, offers an irresistible introduction to this great writer's work

Human Happiness
Human Happiness

Author: Blaise Pascal

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-08-07

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 014196412X

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Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life – or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Pascal's Pensees
Pascal's Pensees

Author: Blaise Pascal

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1627933646

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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.

Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle
Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle

Author: A.W.F. Edwards

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 048684076X

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This survey explores the history of the arithmetical triangle, from its roots in Pythagorean arithmetic, Hindu combinatorics, and Arabic algebra to its influence on Newton and Leibniz as well as modern-day mathematicians.