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BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662) ... Pascal was a child prodigy, who was educated by his father. He was a mathematician of the first order. At 16 he wrote the Essai pour les coniques which was published in 1640. In 1642 he invented a calculating machine to help ... August 17, Blaise Pascal dies in the house of one of his sisters.
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Pascal, Blaise (1623-62), French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, considered one of the great minds in Western intellectual history. ... Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand on June 19, 1623, and his family settled in Paris in 1629. Under the tutelage of his father, Pascal soon proved himself a mathematical...
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Blaise Pascal accomplished Euclid's Elements before he was 12 years old. Furthermore, studying hydrostatics helped him invent the syringe and hydraulic press. The Pascaline was the first digital calculator. Blaise Pascal invented it to help his father collect taxes.
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Biography of Blaise Pascal (BB^Y-1662) ... Blaise Pascal was the third of Étienne Pascal's children and his only son. Blaise's mother died when he was only three years old. In 1632 the Pascal family, Étienne and his four children, left Clermont and settled in Paris. ... Astroseti (A Spanish translation of this biography)
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Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blaise Pascal ( ), (June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France – August 19, 1662, in Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was...
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From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. ... Blaise Pascal was born at Clermont on June 19, 1623, and died at Paris on Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at Clermont, and himself of some scientific reputation, moved to Paris in 1631, partly to prosecute his own scientific studies,
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Blaise Pascal was a very influencial French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability. ... Astroseti (A Spanish translation of this biography)
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A biography of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) with excerpts from his writings ... For more biographical details, please see the entry for Blaise Pascal from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics, (4th ed., 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. See also entries at the Catholic Encyclopedia, and the MacTutor.
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