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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.
Marguerite was the niece and goddaughter of Blaise Pascal. [1] Her father was interested in mathematics and collaborated with Blaise Pascal in various scientific experiments. He would publish some of Pascal's treatises after Pascal died. [3] Marguerite was placed in the care of Port-Royal Abbey, Paris, in January 1654. Since the previous year ...
Françoise Gilberte Pascal was the eldest of three surviving children born to Antoinette Begon and mathematician Étienne Pascal. Her paternal grandfather was Martin Pascal, treasurer of France. When Gilberte's mother died in 1626, her father moved the family to Paris and employed a governess, Louise Delfault, to bring up his children.
Pascal, who never remarried, decided to home-educate his children, who showed extraordinary intellectual ability, particularly his son Blaise. Pascal served on a scientific committee (whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Claude Mydorge) to determine whether Jean-Baptiste Morin's scheme for determining longitude from the Moon's motion was ...
The great thinker’s turn toward the theological has lessons for us even today.
Louis Lafuma asserted that the Discours was not by Pascal but by Charles Paul d'Escoubleau, [43] [179] who frequented Blaise Pascal's circle, i.e. the Roannez, the Méré, and Madame de Sablé, whose salon dealt with questions of love similar to those which the Discours seems to answer - a thesis which was not judged totally fanciful by Victor ...
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 ]
If Pascal’s description resonates more with parents dealing with a particularly violent tantrum from their child than Kennedy’s pithy “good inside,” it’s because parents often have a ...