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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 .
Blaise Pascal is a Canadian singer-songwriter who was active in the early 2000s. [1] Although she released only one album, 2000's Hairspray , she was a Juno Award nominee for Songwriter of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2001 for her songs "Angel Baby", "10 Feet High" and "Rush".
Pascal later said that he did not regret publishing the letters, and if he were to do it again he would write more forcefully. [13] He defended the style in which he wrote the letters, explaining that "if I had written dogmatically, my papers would have been only read by the learned, and those who had no need of the information I furnished".
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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 ]
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 ...
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 ]
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.