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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 .
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 ]
Pascaline (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascal's calculator) 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 , France. [ 2 ]
The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal. A new translation with historical introduction and notes by Rev. Thomas M'Crie, preceded by a life of Pascal, a critical essay, and a biographical notice. Edited by O. W. Wight. 1887. p. 480. Archived from the original on June 16, 2021 – via Open Library, Internet Archive.
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Jacqueline Pascal (4 October 1625 – 4 October 1661), sister of Blaise Pascal and Gilberte Périer, was born at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France. Like her brother she was a prodigy, composing verses when only eight years old, and a five-act comedy at eleven.
The Blaise Pascal Chairs (Chaires Internationales de Recherche Blaise Pascal), established in 1996 by the Government of the Île-de-France Region for internationally acclaimed foreign scientists in all disciplines. [1] A scientific committee annually selects the most outstanding candidates from all over the world.
Secondly, Pascal and Jansenism and the weird/scary politics of the Port Royal group is fascinating and under-represented here. I know that the site biases toward science and math, and I know that Pascal is very important there, but the misery and fear and controversy around that episode is worth discussing in more and more patient detail.