This paper re-examines two major concerns about the validity of Pascal's Wager: (1) The classical von Neumann-Morgenstern Theorem seems to contradict the rationality of maximising expected utility ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal was an all-around intellectual bad-ass. In his rather short life — Pascal succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 39 — he managed to ...