Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World

by Graham Tomlin

He lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the most remarkable and creative figures of the seventeenth century.

He is known for his famous argument 'the wager', but there's so much more to him than that (and most people misunderstand the argument anyway). Pascal can lay claim not only to have built an early version of the modern computer, done ground-breaking work in mathematics and geometry and virtually invented probability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399807641
• ISBN13: 9781399807647
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Hodder Faith
• Length: 480 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"