Honnête homme (English spelling)

…In particular, after his father died in 1651, and his sister Jacqueline Pascal (1625-61) entered the Port-Royal convent against his will, he spent a secular life, seemingly indifferent to religion. However, during this time, through his friendships with socialites such as AG Chevalier de Méré, he was opened to the way of the honnête homme (gentleman, cultured man), which idealizes natural and moderate interaction between people, and learned to observe people with a spirit of sensitivity that is different from a spirit of geometry. At the same time, he continued his scientific research energetically, completing a treatise on the weight of the atmosphere and the equilibrium of fluids (published in 1663). In response to a question from Méré about the distribution of gambling money, he discussed probability problems with Fermat, and as a result wrote De trianguli numerologie (published in 1665). …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…とくに51年父が亡くなり，その後妹のジャクリーヌ･パスカルJacqueline Pascal(1625‐61)が，彼の意志に反してポール･ロアイヤル修道院に入ると，彼は一見宗教に無関心な〈世俗時代〉を送ることになる。しかしこの間メレA.G.chevalier de Méréなどの社交界の人士との交友を通じて，人と人との自然で節度ある交わりを理想とする〈オネットムhonnête homme(紳士，教養人)〉のあり方に開眼し，〈幾何学的精神〉とは異なる〈繊細の精神〉で人間を観察することを学ぶ。同時に科学研究も精力的に続行し，〈大気の重さ〉と〈流体の平衡〉に関する論文を仕上げ(刊行1663)，さらに賭博の賭金の分配のしかたをめぐってメレから受けた質問に端を発してフェルマーとともに確率の問題を論じ，その成果として《数三角形論》(刊行1665)を著した。…

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