Um estudo sobre a relação entre matemática e religião na obra de Blaise Pascal

The aim of the present study is to investigate the way through which the relations between Mathematics and Religion emerge in the work of Blaise Pascal. This research is justified by the need to deepen these relations, so far little explored if compared to intersection points between Mathematics and other fields of knowledge. The choice for Pascal is given by the fact that he was one of the mathematicians who elaborated best one reflection in the religious field thus provoking contradictory reactions. As a methodology, it is a bibliographical and documental research with analytical-comparative reading of referential texts, among them the Oeuvres complètes de Pascal (1954), Le fonds pascalien à Clermont-Ferrand (2001), Mathematics in a postmodern age: a cristian perspective by Howell & Bradley (2001), Mathematics and the divine: a historical study by Koetsier & Bergmans (2005), the Anais dos Seminários Nacionais de História da Matemática and the Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática. The research involving Pascal's life as a mathematician and his religious experience was made. A wider background in which the subject matter emerges was also researched. Seven categories connected to the relation between mathematics and religion were identified from the reading of texts written by mathematicians and historians of mathematics. As a conclusion, the presence of four of these seven categories was verified in Pascal's work

O processo de integração em Blaise Pascal

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Pensées de Blaise Pascal

Contiene : Tom. 1 - Tom. 2.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

Contiene: T. 1 (425, [1] p. en bl.); T. 2 (XII, 549, [1] p. en bl.); T.3 (VIII, 526, [1] p. en bl.); T. 4 (VIII, 456, [9] p. lam. pleg.); T. 5 (VIII, 462, [1] p. en bl., [5] p. lam. pleg.)

Pensées de Blaise Pascal

Mode of access: Internet.

Oeuvres complètes de Blaise Pascal /

Contiene : Tom. 1 - Tom. 2.

Pensées de Blaise Pascal : suivies d'une nouvelle table analytique.

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The thoughts, letters, and opuscules of Blaise Pascal /

Mode of access: Internet.

The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal.

Tr. of: Lettres ecrites a un provincial.

Blaise Pascal /

Thoughts / translated by W.F. Trotter -- Letters / translated by M.L. Booth -- Minor works / translated by O.W. Wight.

Œuvres de Blaise Pascal; publiées suivant l'ordre chronologique, avec documents complémentaires, introductions et notes,

Vols. [12-14] have title: Pensées de Blaise Pascal. Nouv. ed. collationnée sur le manuscrit autographe et publiée avec une introduction et des notes par Léon Brunschvicg.

Pensées de Blaise Pascal.

Mode of access: Internet.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal, pub. suivant l'ordre chronologique avec documents complémentaires, introductions et notes.

Mode of access: Internet.