He did present one to Queen Christina of Sweden and he was allowed a monopoly over it by royal decree. Although Pascal had been raised as a Catholic, later in his life, Pascal had been converted to Jansenism in 1646 and moved to a monastery in Port Royal in France. But in 1658, he left the monastery to continue his mathematical work...
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But in 1658, he left the monastery to continue his mathematical work. Pascal then worked on many mathematical problems, including how fluids and gases behave (1646) this proved that the mercury in a barometer did not move because of a vacuum but rather because of barometric pressure, created "Pascal's Triangle" which calculated the probabilities of winning in gambling (1654) which today has been important in the study of statistics and even modern day physics, and the theory of indivisibles (1658)...
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Pascal's Wager Reason cannot settle which way we should incline, but a consideration of the relevant outcomes supposedly can. Pascal’s arguments run as follows: 1. Argument from Superdominance: According to this argument, if some acts dominate all others, the solution to our decision problem is to perform a dominating act...	3 / 669
Pascal's Wager If you sin, and hurt people, you will suffer throughout your life, because you will be miserable. In one's life there are many things that can be doubted and questioned over and over and still no direct truth, this is a prime example...	3 / 657
Existence Of God On the flip-side of the coin: God does not exist, no heaven and hell to look forward to or fear, no rewards and no wrath. Choose God, says Pascal, If you win you win everything if you lose you lose nothing, though the odds are even, the rewards are not...	2 / 443
No Dice On The Wager: A Critical Discussion Of Pascal's God Argument The problem here lies in the basis of the strength for this belief. To make a decision and then act on that decision seems pretty consistent; but, to make a decision and have that decision become a belief based on habitual actions does not follow at all...	7 / 1781