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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 .
In the letters, Pascal's tone combines the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world. Their style meant that, quite apart from their religious influence, the Provincial Letters were popular as a literary work. Adding to that popularity was Pascal's use of humor, mockery, and satire in his arguments.
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 ]
[3] The mathematical methods of probability arose in the investigations first of Gerolamo Cardano in the 1560s (not published until 100 years later), and then in the correspondence Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal (1654) on such questions as the fair division of the stake in an interrupted game of chance.
[3] [2] Philosopher Nick Bostrom later elaborated the thought experiment in the form of a fictional dialogue. [2] Subsequently, other authors published their own sequels to the events of this first dialogue, adopting the same literary style. [4] [5] In Bostrom's description, [2] Blaise Pascal is accosted by a mugger who has forgotten their ...
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Étienne Pascal (French: [etjÉ›n paskal]; 2 May 1588 – 24 September 1651) was a French chief tax officer and the father of Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). Biography [ edit ]
Three months after Magnus, Blaise Pascal published his Expériences nouvelles touchant le vide, giving details of his first barometric experiments. Pascal went farther than Torricelli, having his brother-in-law try the experiment at different altitudes on a mountain and finding, indeed, that the farther down in the ocean of atmosphere, the ...