He agreed with Montaigne's assertion that certainty in mathematical axioms is impossible without God's intervention in "On the Art of Persuasion," and proposed theorems of projective geometry in Essay on Conics. This man masqueraded as Louis de Montalte to refute the Jesuit concept of "actual grace" and to support Jansenism in an epistolary work. Another of his works outlines the trivial causes of love, the case for belief in God, and how different the world would be without the distinct nose of Cleopatra. For 10 points, name this author of The Provincial Letters and Pensées, a French philosopher and mathematician with namesake triangle and wager.  
He agreed with Montaigne's assertion that certainty in mathematical axioms is impossible without God's intervention in "On the Art of Persuasion," and proposed theorems of projective geometry in Essay on Conics. This man masqueraded as Louis de Montalte to refute the Jesuit concept of "actual grace" and to support Jansenism in an epistolary work. Another of his works outlines the trivial causes of love, the case for belief in God, and how different the world would be without the distinct nose of Cleopatra. For 10 points, name this author of The Provincial Letters and Pensées, a French philosopher and mathematician with namesake triangle and wager.  
He agreed with Montaigne's assertion that certainty in mathematical axioms is impossible without God's intervention in "On the Art of Persuasion," and proposed theorems of projective geometry in Essay on Conics.
Blaise {Pascal}