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Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (–)
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Blaise Pascal[a] (19June 19August ) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.
Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In , he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.[8][9]
Like his contemporary René De
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Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal (pronounced [blɛz paskal]), (June 19, – August 19, ) was a Frenchmathematician, physicist, and religiousphilosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat o
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