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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was only three years old when his mother died. After her death the family spent five more years in Clermont-Ferrand. Then the family moved to Paris in 1631. His father, who was a mathematician himself, decided to teach his son at home. At the age of 12 or 13 he began attending discussion groups at the Académie Parisienne with such renowned scientists such as Pierre de Fermat and René Descartes. By the age of sixteen Blaise Pascal had written two treatises, one being the acclaimed “Essai pour les coniques”, which already contained his geometrical theorem, which is often referred to as the “mystic hexagram.” When Blaise Pascal presented the Essai at the Academie Parisienne, ...

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to Jansenism in 1646. This was a Catholic movement that condemned free will and instead underlined the importance of original sin, and that, which is predestined, and thus divine grace is the only assurance for salvation. However, this did not cause Blaise Pascal to abandon his “will” with experiments as he continued to apply himself further in scientific studies. After having returned to Paris in 1647, where he and Descartes met again, he repeated and extended the experiments of Evangelista Torricelli’s with barometers. As a result, Blaise Pascal in the same year wrote Expériences nouvelles touchant la vide (New Experiments with the Vacuum), arguing against the predominant notion that there is not a vacuum in nature.

In 1654, Blaise Pascal finished his “Traité du triangle arithmétique” (Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle), which remained unpublished during his lifetime. The treatise was the result of a correspondence with Pierre Fermat over the age-old problem in ...

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