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Blaise Pascal (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France—died August 19, 1662, Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose.
Blaise Pascal [a] (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) 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.
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities.
Blaise Pascal is known for being a French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He conducted pioneering experiments with barometers, invented a calculating machine, proposed that belief in god was one's best bet (Pascal's wager), and has several mathematical theorems named after him.
Pascal was born in Clermont (now Clermont-Ferrand), France, on 19 June 1623, and died thirty-nine years later in Paris (19 August 1662). Following his mother's death when he was three years old, Blaise was reared by his father, Étienne, in the company of his two sisters, Gilberte (b. 1620) and Jacqueline (b. 1625).
Blaise Pascal was an influential mathematical writer, a master of the French language, and a great religious philosopher (a person who seeks wisdom). He began making contributions to mathematics at a very young age. The computer programming language "Pascal" is named after him.
Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian. In mathematics, he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism.
French inventor Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–Aug. 19, 1662) was one of the most reputed mathematicians and physicists of his time. He is credited with inventing an early calculator, amazingly advanced for its time, called the Pascaline.
Blaise Pascal lived an extraordinary yet painfully short life. In his 39 years on this Earth, the prodigious French philosopher, mathematician and inventor pioneered groundbreaking work across geometry, probability theory, physics as well as religion and philosophy.
Blaise Pascal performed experiments with mercury barometers initially in Rouen and Paris, and published Expériences nouvelles touchant la vide in 1647. He subsequently arranged for his brother-in-law, Florin Périer, to conduct on his behalf one of the most famous experiments of the scientific revolution on the puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the French philosopher and scientist, was one of the greatest and most influential mathematicians of all time. He was also an expert in hydrostatics, an inventor, and a well-versed religious philosopher.
Blaise Pascal was a very influential French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability.
Blaise Pascal, (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France—died Aug. 19, 1662, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. The son of a mathematician, he was a child prodigy, earning the envy of René Descartes with an essay he wrote on conic sections in 1640.
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France to a bourgeois family. He displayed signs of ill health from his infancy, and thereby was educated at home solely by his father Etienne, a tax collector and mathematician.
Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, Blaise Pascal is one of the most well known mathematicians of all times. His mother, Antoinette, died when he was only three, leaving his father to raise the sickly Blaise and his two sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. After the death of his wife, Étienne moved the family to Paris.
Born in France in 1623, Blaise Pascal was the third child and only son of Étienne Pascal. His father did not believe in the French school system so he opted to homeschool his son. Ironically, the one subject that Pascal did not learn was mathematics. His father did not want his son to learn the subject until he was 15.
Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth century notable French mathematician, inventor, physicist, philosopher and writer. He made great contribution to natural and applied science. His work was based on clarifying the concepts of fluids, vacuum and pressure and his work defended the scientific method.
Born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne region of France, Blaise Pascal was a prominent French writer, Christian philosopher, physicist and mathematician.
Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Pascal’s father had a strong interest in science and mathematics and this may have had a great deal of influence on him. Even at a very young age, Pascal was showing quite a bit of talent for math and the sciences.
His major contribution, however, is the record of his religious and philosophical struggle to reconcile human experience, God, and the quest for happiness and meaning. Early Life. Blaise Pascal...
A Pascaline signed by Pascal in 1652 Top view and overview of the entire mechanism [1]. Pascal's calculator (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascaline) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father's work as the supervisor of taxes in Rouen. [2]
L'université Blaise-Pascal (UBP, selon les décrets université Clermont-Ferrand 2) était un établissement d'enseignement supérieur français ayant existé entre 1976 et 2016. Elle a fusionné le 1 er janvier 2017 avec l' université d'Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand 1) pour donner naissance à l’ université Clermont-Auvergne .
Blaise Pascal (Gemälde entstanden 1691) Blaise Pascal [blɛz paskal] (* 19. Juni 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand; † 19. August 1662 in Paris) war ein französischer Mathematiker, Physiker, Literat, Erfinder und christlicher Philosoph
Blaise Pascal, född 19 juni 1623 i Clermont-Ferrand, död 19 augusti 1662 i Paris, var en fransk matematiker, fysiker, filosof och religiös skriftställare. Biografi. Blaise Pascal föddes 1623 i Clermont-Ferrand i mellersta Frankrike. Fadern, Étienne Pascal, var jurist men också intresserad av matematik och naturvetenskap.
Blaise Pascal (Clermont, 19 giugno 1623 [1] – Parigi, 19 agosto 1662) è stato un matematico, fisico, filosofo e teologo francese. Bambino prodigio, fu istruito dal padre.I primi lavori di Pascal sono relativi alle scienze naturali e alle scienze applicate, contribuendo in modo significativo alla costruzione di calcolatori meccanici e allo studio dei fluidi: ha chiarito i concetti di ...