Born in Clermont-Ferrand, in the Auvergne region of France, Blaise Pascal lost his mother, Antoinette Begon, at the age of three. His father, Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), was a local judge and member of the "noblesse de robe", who also had an interest in science and mathematics. Pas...
Eight years after Pascal's death appeared what purported to be his Pensees, and a preface by his nephew Perier gave the world to understand that these were fragments of a great projected apology for Christianity which the author had, in conversation with his friends, planned out years before....
Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France, Blaise Pascal lost his mother at the age of three. His mathematician father, Étienne Pascal (1588 - 1651), brought him up. Blaise Pascal was the brother of Jacqueline Pascal (1625 - 1661). ...
Blaise Pascal was an influential mathematical writer, a master of the French language, and a great religious philosopher (a person who seeks wisdom). He began making contributions to mathematics at a very young age. The computer programming language "Pascal" is named after him. ...
He also wrote on religion and philosophy, dedicating his later years to defense of a controversial Christian movement known as Jansenism. Pascal suffered from poor health for most of his life and died at the early age of 39 on August 19, 1662. Blaise Pascal 1623-1662...
The beginning of Pascal’s education was geared toward languages, especially Latin and Greek. Even so, Etienne's plan backfired: The fact that mathematics was a forbidden topic made the subject even more interesting to the inquisitive boy, who at the age of 12 began exploring geometry on his...
The beginning of Pascal’s education was geared toward languages, especially Latin and Greek. Even so, Etienne's plan backfired: The fact that mathematics was a forbidden topic made the subject even more interesting to the inquisitive boy, who at the age of 12 began exploring geometry on his...
Pascal's charm lies in his bitterness and tart cynicism. People will do anything rather than consider their dreadful reality, he thinks. "Man is so vain that the slightest thing, like pushing a ball with a billiard cue, is enough to divert him." At the same time for Pascal, people are...
Blaise Pascal was a brilliant mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher who left an indelible mark on the world with his groundbreaking work in the 17th century. His early works in mathematics, especially on projective geometry and conic sections at the age of 16, earned him recognition...
Pascal believed that reasonable men should bet on God’s existence. Blaise Pascal did not limit his apologetical arsenal to reason alone. “The heart has reasons which the head knows not” is perhaps the most famous line of this genius mathematician and physicist. In the Age of Reason, ...