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100 1  Connor, James A. 
245 10 Pascal's wager :|bthe man who played dice with God /
       |cJames A. Connor. 
250    1st ed. 
260    [San Francisco] :|bHarperSanFrancisco,|c©2006. 
300    xvi, 224 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224). 
505 00 |tIntroduction: The Man Who Played Dice with God|g1 --
       |tEpilogue: Oracles, Dicing, and Schrodinger's Cat|g205. 
520    "In a major biography of Blaise Pascal, James Connor 
       explores both the intellectual giant whose theory of 
       probability paved the way for modernity and the devout 
       religious mystic who dared apply probability to faith. A 
       child prodigy, Pascal made essential additions to 
       Descartes's work at age sixteen. By age nineteen, he had 
       invented the world's first mechanical calculator. But 
       despite his immense contributions to modern science and 
       mathematical thinking, it is Pascal's wager with God that 
       set him apart from his peers as a man fully engaged with 
       both religious and scientific pursuits." "One night in 
       1654, Pascal had a visit from God, a mystical experience 
       that changed his life. Struggling to explain God's 
       existence to others, Pascal dared to apply his 
       mathematical work to religious faith, playing dice with 
       divinity: he argued for the existence of God, basing his 
       position not on rigorous logical principles as did Aquinas
       or Anselm of Canterbury, but on outcomes - his famous 
       wager. By applying to the existence of God the same rules 
       that governed the existence and position of the universe 
       itself, Pascal sounded the death knell for medieval 
       "certainties" and paved the way for modern thinking."--
       Jacket. 
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