Colomes blaise pascal biography summary

Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France to a bourgeois family. He displayed signs of ill health from his infancy, and thereby was educated at home solely by his father Etienne, a tax collector and mathematician.

This education was highly unusual considering the time and his social status, and centered almost entirely on mathematics and classical languages, with little formal study of literature or philosophy: his writings were thus primarily grounded in his own thoughts and experiences.

Pascal’s first writings focused on geometry and the scientific world.

Colomes blaise pascal biography summary

He composed the Essay on Conics and started work on a calculating machine to aid his father, after the family had relocated to Rouen. He also contributed to the modern theory of probability with Pascal’s triangle, an array of binomial coefficients that arise in probability as well as calculus, though Pascal’s works did not extend so far.

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