Designing Experiments & Games of Chance
Subtitle: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal
Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780881353761
Subjects: Science, Renaissance; Probability & Statistics - General; Games of chance (Mathematics); Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Recreations & Games; Experimental design; 1623-1662; Contributions in mathematics; Pascal, Blaise,
Table of contents: label: 1.
title: A precosious genius.
pagenum: 1; label: 2.
title: Filling the void: From Galileo to Torricelli.
pagenum: 17; label: 3.
title: Creating emptiness: Pascal’s ingenious methods.
pagenum: 41; label: 4.
title: The battle of the void: The Jesuits against Pascal.
pagenum: 65; label: 5.
title: The great experiment on a mountain in France.
pagenum: 99; label: 6.
title: Why pumps work: The treatise on the equilibrium of liquids.
pagenum: 129; label: 7.
title: Submerged in a sea of air: The treatise on the weight of the mass of air.
pagenum: 155; label: 8.
title: Pascal on the advancement of learning in science and religion.
pagenum: 187; label: 9.
title: The use of logic and the role of experiments.
pagenum: 209; label: 10.
title: The marvelous arithmetical triangle.
pagenum: 241; label: 11.
title: Mastering games of chance.
pagenum: 257; label: 12.
title: Putting the arithmetical triangle to work.
pagenum: 291; label: 13.
title: The brilliance and pride of a gambler and a mathematician.
pagenum: 313; title: Conclusion.
pagenum: 333; title: Selected bibliography.
pagenum: 341; title: Index
pagenum: 347