Following very much his own course, Niklaus used ALGOL W as the foundation for what ultimately would become Pascal, as named after the famous French mathematician and physicist, Blaise Pascal.

One chronically overstimulated guy headed to a silent meditation retreat to spend ten days tuning into his psyche. That’s when the real noise began.

Like several others on this list, Frenchman Blaise Pascal was a philosopher and mathematician. His mother died in 1626, when ...

By believing in God under the assumption that I would be guaranteed entry into the gates of heaven, belief became less about ...

First, the people who accurately predicted their financial situation a year later—the realists—were the happiest a year later ...

In his famous Wager, Blaise Pascal (1623–62) offers the reader an argument that it is rational to strive to believe in God. Philosophical debates about this classic argument have continued until our ...

I’ve decided to apply the philosophical principle known as Pascal’s Bet, named after the 17th-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal, who famously decided that it would be logical for him to believe ...

The first of these volumes, The End of Time (2005), is all at once a meditation on the religious angst of the 17th-century physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal, a journal of his own battle with ...

1646: Pierre Petit tests Blaise Pascal's theory that atmospheric pressure decreases with height, by carrying a barometer to the top of a small mountain in France. This experiment confirms that the ...

From the French capital to a tiny coastal Catalan village – and a few places in between – there are plenty of places to spend ...