Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal

• (1623 - 1662)

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Biography

• Pascal was born on June 19th , 1623 in
  Clermont-Ferrnad, France.
• His father was a local judge at Clermont, and he
  had some scientific studies.
• Pascals father decided that his children should
  not learn mathematics until they are at least the
  age of 15, so he took all of the mathematic
  textbooks out of the house.
• Pascal insisted that his primary studies were
  languages, and that he would have nothing to do
  with mathematics.

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Education

• Pascals father was interested in his son
  learning scientific studies.
• Pascal was not over worked.
• Pascal had a strong interest for languages.
• At the age of 12 Pascal had asked his tutor what
  geometry was, and from then on he had found his
  new study to be very intriguing, and he had
  devoted all of his time, for a few weeks, to
  geometry.

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Influences

• When Pascal was 14 he followed his father to the
  Mersenne, which is where he began to meet other
  intellects.
• By the age of 15 he began to admire the work of
  Desargues.

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Mathematical Discoveries

• Pascal was able to discover properties of
  figures, and in particular the proportion that
  the sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to
  two right angles.
• He published many works such as
• Essay on Conic Section
• New Experiments Concerning Vacuums
• A philosophical work called Pensées
• Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids
• The Generation of Conic Sections
• Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle

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Pascals Triangle

• Pascal worked to enhance the Arithmetical
  Triangle, which later became know as Pascals
  Triangle due to Pascals work.
• Pascals triangle has many uses when it comes to
  binomial expansion.

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is 20, and it is consisted of 13610 (Ball).
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Pascals Calculator

• Pascal had worked on it from the years of 1642 to
  1645.
• He made it so that his father could more
  conveniently calculate his work collecting taxes.

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Application

• One of Pascals most well known accomplishments
  was Pascals triangle, which is still used today
  when it comes to binomial expansion.
• Pascal also wrote many books that expanded on our
  knowledge of mathematics and he was able to
  figure out many of these concepts on his own.

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Bibliography

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• "Blaise Pascal." Wikipedia. May 2009. 22 May 2009
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• Boutoux, Emile. Pascal. Paris Librairie, 1900.
• Coleman, Francis X. J. Neither angel nor beast
  the life and work of Blaise Pascal. New York
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• Orcibal, Jean, and Lucien Jerphagnon. 2008.
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