Question

write a short note on blaise pascal

Answer 1

Blaise Pascal (/pæˈskæl, pɑːˈskɑːl/;[3]French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician,physicist, inventor, writer and Catholictheologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector inRouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure andvacuum by generalising the work ofEvangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.

Blaise Pascal

Painting of Blaise Pascal made by François II Quesnel for Gérard Edelinck in 1691.

Born19 June 1623
Clermont-Ferrand,
Auvergne, FranceDied19 August 1662 (aged 39)
Paris, FranceResidenceFranceNationalityFrenchEra17th-century philosophyRegionWestern philosophySchoolJansenism

Main interests

Theology Mathematics Philosophy Physics

Notable ideas

Pascal's WagerPascal's trianglePascal's lawPascal's theorem

Influences

St. Augustine of Hippo Michel de Montaigne René Descartes Gilles de Roberval[1] Cornelius Jansen Epictetus Gerolamo Cardano[2]

Influenced

William Lane Craig Antoine Arnauld Pierre Duhem William James G. W. Leibniz Léon Brunschvicg Alexis de Tocqueville Henri Bergson

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and 50 prototypes,[4] he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) over the following 10 years,[5]establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.[6][7]

Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science and Torricelli, in 1647, he rebutted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. Pascal's results caused many disputes before being accepted.

In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement withinCatholicism known by its detractors asJansenism.[8] His father died in 1651. Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: theLettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on thecycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.

Pascal had poor health, especially after the age of 18, and he died just two months after his 39th birthday.[9]

Answer 2

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