41. Pascal Scholarly biography includes excerpts from pascal's own writings. http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pascal.html

Blaise Pascal Born: 19 June 1623 in Clermont (now Clermont-Ferrand), Auvergne, France Died: 19 Aug 1662 in Paris, France Click the picture above to see eight larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Blaise Pascal was the third of decided that Blaise was not to study mathematics before the age of 15 and all mathematics texts were removed from their house. Blaise however, his curiosity raised by this, started to work on geometry himself at the age of 12. He discovered that the sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles and, when his father found out, he relented and allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid At the age of 14 Blaise Pascal started to accompany his father to Mersenne 's meetings. Mersenne belonged to the religious order of the Minims, and his cell in Paris was a frequent meeting place for Gassendi Roberval Carcavi , Auzout, Mydorge , Mylon, Desargues and others. Soon, certainly by the time he was 15, Blaise came to admire the work of Desargues . At the age of sixteen, Pascal presented a single piece of paper to one of

42. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biograph pascal, blaise (16231662) Only seven of pascal s devices survive today.pascal suffered from serious health problems, and spent most of his final years http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Pascal.html

Branch of Science Mathematicians Nationality French Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) French mathematician, philosopher, and religious figure. He studied the region above the mercury in a barometer maintaining that it was a vacuum. In his investigations of the barometer he found that the height to which the mercury rose was the same regardless of shape. Based on his double vacuum experiment, he formulated Pascal's principle Pascal also designed and built mechanical adding machines, and incorporated a company in 1649 to produce and market them. Unfortunately, the machines were rather highly priced and had reliability problems. Only seven of Pascal's devices survive today. Pascal suffered from serious health problems, and spent most of his final years writing on religious philosophy. Additional biographies: MacTutor (St. Andrews) Dublin Trinity College Bonn References Bell, E. T. "Greatness and the Misery of Man: Pascal." Ch. 5 in New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 73-89, 1986.

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44. Blaise Pascal biography of blaise pascal. blaise pascal was born at Clermont on June 19,1623, and died at Paris on Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at http://www.thocp.net/biographies/pascal_blaise.html

Blaise Pascal June 19, 1623 Clermont August 19, 1662 Paris Related Articles Related Resources Gordon Moore Related Topics Principal papers Les Pensées Hardware the pascaline Software See Also descartes Keywords pensees, pascaline Achievement Invented one of the first mechanical calculators: the pascaline Biography Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises. His father, struck by this display of ability, gave him a copy of Euclid's Elements, a book which Pascal read with avidity and soon mastered. Before Pascal turned 13 he had proven the 32-nd proposition of Euclid and discovered an error in Rene Descartes geometry. At 16, Pascal began preparing to write a study of the entire field of mathematics, but his father required his time to hand total long columns of numbers. Pascal began designing a calculating machine, which he finally perfected when he was thirty, the pascaline , a beautiful handcrafted box about fourteen by five by three inches. The first accurate mechanical calculator was born. The Pacaline was not a commercial success in Pascal's lifetime; it could do the work of six accountants and people feared it would create unemployment.

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47. Inventor Blaise Pascal Fascinating facts about blaise pascal inventor of the mechanical adding machinein 1642. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/pascal.htm

Blaise Pascal Fascinating facts about Blaise Pascal inventor of an early computer, mechanical adding machine in 1642. Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662), French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, considered one of the great minds in Western intellectual history. Inventor of the first mechanical adding machine. Pascal was one of the most eminent mathematicians and physicists of his day and one of the greatest mystical writers in Christian literature. His religious works are personal in their speculation on matters beyond human understanding. He is generally ranked among the finest French polemicists, especially in the Lettres provinciales, a classic in the literature of irony. Pascal's prose style is noted for its originality and, in particular, for its total lack of artifice. He affects his readers by his use of logic and the passionate force of his dialectic. TO LEARN MORE RELATED INFORMATION: History of Computing from The Great Idea Finder Invention of the Adding Machine from The Great Idea Finder ON THE BOOKSHELF: The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle : And Other Surprising Stories About Inventions by Don L. Wulffson / Paperback - 128 pages

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49. Blaise An objectoriented scripting language with Object pascal-like syntax. Open source, MPL http://blaise.sourceforge.net/

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Blaise Pascal At the end of 1654, after several months of intense depression, Pascal had a religious experience that altered his life. He entered the Jansenist monastery at Port-Royal, although he did not take orders. He never published in his own name again. The Jansenists encouraged him in his mathematical studies, which he resumed. To assist them in their struggles against the Jesuits, he wrote, under a pseudonym, a defense of the famous Jansenist Antoine Arnauld, in the form of 18 epistles. Known as Lettres provinciales, they were likely responsible for the subsequent reputation of the Jesuits as hypocritical and casuistic. In 1658 he broke with the Jansenists and left the monastery. He continued mathematical study and worked on calculus and on probability theory with Pierre de Fermat. Pascal died at the age of 39 in intense pain after a malignant growth in his stomach spread to the brain. His most famous work is the Pensees (Thoughts), a set of deeply personal meditations in somewhat fragmented form on human suffering and faith in God. "Pascal's wager" expresses the conviction that belief in God is rational: if God does not exist, one stands to lose nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

51. Pascal, Blaise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 pascal, blaise. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 200105. http://www.bartleby.com/65/pa/Pascal-B.html

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52. Pascal's Wager Argument due to blaise pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. Encyclopedia entry by Alan H¡jek. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/

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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) Frans wiskundig genie, natuurkundige, polemist, wijsgeer en apologeet. Pascal is een christelijk denker en schrijver wiens grote aantrekkingskracht vooral ligt in zijn religieuze persoonlijkheid. Daarbij komt dat hij de gave bezat zijn religieus beleven zo direct uit te leggen dat ook wij nu nog bij het lezen worden ontroerd. Pascal is door deze existentiële houding actueel in onze tijd. Gedachten over de godsdienst. Een verkorte populaire bewerking door Sipke van der Land uit meer dan duizend gedachten van de 17 e eeuwse Franse schrijver / filosoof / wiskundige. Van Blaise Pascal is verschenen het boek in de Nederlandse taal "Gedachten" (vertaald uit het Frans van Pensées) in de uitgave van Uitgever Boom (Amsterdam), 1997. De vader van Blaise Pascal, hoofd van het gerechtshof in Clermont-Ferrand, gaf zijn post op om zijn kinderen een betere opvoeding te gunnen en vestigde zich in Parijs. Hij was zelf een groot wiskundige en zag tot zijn genoegen dat de jonge Blaise zich in snel tempo op alle gebieden van de exacte wetenschap ontwikkelde; hij verwachtte niet ten onrechte dat zijn zoon hem op het terrein van de wiskunde, maar ook op dat van de filosofie, verre zou overtreffen. Een ongeluk dat de vader overkwam, leidde tot het contact van het hele gezin met het jansenisme (al ging Blaise Pascal daartoe pas later over): twee edellieden lieten hem en al de andere familieleden de geschriften van de godgeleerde Jansenius, Arnauld en de belangrijke theoretici van deze beweging lezen.

54. Pascal, Blaise --  Encyclopædia Britannica pascal, blaise French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and masterof prose. He laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108317

Home Browse Newsletters Store ... Subscribe Already a member? Log in Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Pascal's life to the Port-Royal years Assessment Major Works Mathematics, logic, and the foundations of science Physics Religious philosophy and controversy Other works ... Print this Table of Contents Shopping Price: USD $1495 Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) Price: USD $15.95 The Scrabble player's bible on sale! Save 30%. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Price: USD $19.95 Save big on America's best-selling dictionary. Discounted 38%! More Britannica products Pascal, Blaise  Encyclopædia Britannica Article Page 1 of 11 Blaise Pascal born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France died August 19, 1662, Paris Pascal, red crayon drawing by Jean Domat, c. Pascal, Blaise... (75 of 2875 words) var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]];

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57. Biographie De Pascal blaise pascal, mathématicien, physicien et théologienfrançais du 17e siècle, parues dans le magazine Info Science, le Quotidien en http://www.infoscience.fr/histoire/portrait/pascal.html

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59. Blaise Pascal - Boy Wonder blaise pascal was born in Clermont (now ClermontFerrand) in France, pascal Triangle. Even though blaise pascal was not the first person to work on the http://www.math.sfu.ca/histmath/Europe/17thCenturyAD/Blaise.htm

Pascal, Blaise (1623 ñ 1662) By Eddie Yuen Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont The young Pascal began to participate with his father in Mersenneís Circle, a weekly discussion group of scientists and mathematicians. In this plantation of intellects, he learned from Girard Desargues, who had just published a projective geometry book but was not well received because of the difficult vocabulary and style. Pascal was one of the few to appreciate his work. When he was 16, he presented a projective geometry paper at the meeting about what is now called the "mystic hexagon" which impressed everyone. One of his sisters wrote an account of her brotherís life saying that the paper was so well received that young Pascal was considered to be the best mathematican since the time of Archimedes. In the next year, Blaise had to suspend his association with the geometrians in the Mersenneís Circle because he and his sisters had to move to Rouen where his father was appointed as a royal tax official in Upper Normandy. Blaise Pascal was a genius with many talents. He was known in his day and ours as a mathematician and physicist, was also a spiritual writer. In this paper, we will focus on his mathematics accomplishments:

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