Great Books of the Western World
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662)
Vol. 33: Pascal
A web page by Alan Nicoll
| The Works of Pascal |
| Title of Work | Links | Assignment |
| The Provincial Letters | etext | extras | comments | Year 6 |
| Pensées | etext | extras | comments | Year 2: selections* |
| Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum | etext | extras | comments | Not assigned |
| New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum | etext | extras | comments | Not assigned |
Account of the Great Experiment Concerning
the Equilibrium of Fluids | etext | extras | comments | Year 9 |
Treatises on the Equilibrium of Liquids and
on the Weight of the Mass of the Air | etext | extras | comments | Not assigned |
| On Geometrical Demonstration | etext | extras | comments | Year 9 |
| Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle | etext | extras | comments | Year 2 |
| Correspondence With Fermat on the Theory of Probabilities | etext | extras | comments | Not assigned |
* Pensées assignment, year 2 selections (numbers in the Trotter translation):
72, 82-83, 100, 218, 131, 139, 142-143, 171, 194-195, 219, 229, 233-234, 242, 273, 277, 282, 289, 298, 303, 320, 323, 325, 330-331, 374, 385, 392, 395-397, 409, 412-413, 416, 418, 425, 430, 434-435, 463, 491, 525-531, 538, 543, 547, 553, 556, 564, 571, 586, 598, 607-610, 613, 619-620, 631, 640, 644, 673, 675, 684, 692-693, 737, 760, 768, 792-793
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Miscellaneous Links
Pascal Resources, Not Mathematical
- Pascal at Bartleby. Includes Harvard Classics text of Pensées, Provincial Letters, and Minor Works, plus a lecture.
- Pensées etext in various versions at CCEL
- Pascal Wikipedia article
- Open Directory Project page on Pascal, many links
- Pascal, long article from the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Pascal the Mathematician
- Pascal page at School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland
- W. W. Rouse Ball wrote this article on Pascal with a discussion of the arithmetical triangle, from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (4th edition, 1908)
- Wikipedia article on Pascal's Triangle
- Pascal's Triangle, a discussion at Cambridge University Library
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