Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia
WEBBlaise Pascal (/ pæˈskæl / pass-KAL, also UK: /- ˈskɑːl, ˈpæskəl, - skæl / -KAHL, PASS-kəl, -kal, US: / pɑːˈskɑːl / pahs-KAHL; [3][4][5][6][7] French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and …
Blaise Pascal | Biography, Facts, & Inventions | Britannica
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Blaise Pascal (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France—died August 19, 1662, Paris) was a French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose.
Blaise Pascal - Education, Pensées & Religion - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities.
Blaise Pascal - World History Encyclopedia
WEBJan 22, 2024 · Blaise Pascal is known for being a French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He conducted pioneering experiments with barometers, invented a calculating machine, proposed that belief in god was one's best bet (Pascal's wager), and has several mathematical theorems named after him.
Blaise Pascal - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBAug 21, 2007 · One of the most famous and most extensive notes in the Pensées (Fragment 397: II, 676–81) is the so-called ‘wager’ in favour of belief in God. Cole (1995, Chapter 15) argues that Pascal exhibited signs of manic depression and an almost infantile dependence on his family in his mature years.
Pascal, Blaise | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBBlaise Pascal was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian. In mathematics, he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism.
Biography of Blaise Pascal, Inventor of the Calculator - ThoughtCo
WEBJul 9, 2019 · French inventor Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–Aug. 19, 1662) was one of the most reputed mathematicians and physicists of his time. He is credited with inventing an early calculator, amazingly advanced for its time, called the …
Blaise Pascal summary | Britannica
WEBBlaise Pascal, (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France—died Aug. 19, 1662, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. The son of a mathematician, he was a child prodigy, earning the envy of René Descartes with an essay he wrote on conic sections in 1640.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) - Biography - MacTutor History of ...
WEBBlaise Pascal was a very influential 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 …
Blaise Pascal - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
WEBAug 21, 2007 · Blaise Pascal performed experiments with mercury barometers initially in Rouen and Paris, and published Expériences nouvelles touchant la vide in 1647. He subsequently arranged for his brother-in-law, Florin Périer, to conduct on his behalf one of the most famous experiments of the scientific revolution on the puy-de-Dôme, in the …
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