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Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. In his correspondence with Fermat in 1654 he laid the foundations of probability theory.

A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Pierre-Simon Laplace

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• A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Pierre-Simon Laplace
• The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon

  Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher of the seventeenth century.

• The Will to Believe, William James

  Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician, physicist and religious thinker. His argument for belief as a profitable wager is known as Pascal's wager.

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein

  Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), a French mathematician, physicist and religious thinker, one of the founders of probability theory.

• The Pleasures of Life, John Lubbock

  Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and thinker of the 17th century.

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