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The Blaise Pascal University was created by the division of the University of Clermont-Ferrand in two entities following a 1976 decree. [5] In 1987 it was named for mathematician, scientist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal, who was born in Clermont. Mathias Bernard was elected in 2012 as president of the university. [2] [6]
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 ]
Clermont Auvergne University (French: Université Clermont Auvergne) is a public research university with its main campus in Clermont-Ferrand, France.It was created with the merger of Blaise Pascal University and the University of Auvergne on 1 January 2017.
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 .
The University of Clermont-Ferrand was officially founded in 1896, by merging of two existing faculties (Literature and Sciences) and a medical school.. In 1976, due to political issues, the University split between University Clermont-Ferrand I - University of Auvergne and University Clermont-Ferrand II - Blaise Pascal University; [1] they latter remerge in Clermont Auvergne University in 2017.
Pascal’s conversion experience, with its distinctly Mosaic overtones, would eventually lead him to show that Christianity’s firmest foundation is the sanctity of Judaism, both past and present.
Second edition of Blaise Pascal's Pensées, 1670. The Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. [1]
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