Saturday, March 30, 2013

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

 Definition:

a French Mathmatican, Inventor, Writer, and Pilosopher who was born at Clermont on June 19, 1623, and died at Paris on Aug. 19, 1662.
Sample Sentences:

Pascal employed his arithmetical triangle in 1653, but no account of his method was printed till 1665.

Pascal's arithmetical triangle, to any required order, is got by drawing a diagonal downwards from right to left as in the figure.

Pascal made an illegitimate use of the new theory in the seventh chapter of his Pensées.

Usage:

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html
Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal/
Paragraph:

    Pascal was a French Mathamatican, Inventor, Writer, and Philosopher.  He invented the Calculating Machine.  He made The Mathematical Theory of Probability.  He contributed to the number theory and geometry.  Pascal was at first involved in the religious movement then his views changed and was always around the gamblers and thinkers.  He was influenced by Michel De Montaigne.

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