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French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Philosopher, Writer, and Catholic Theologian
: ...a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #5 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Science and The Universe
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me.”
Source: "A History of Mathematics," by Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Chapter 15: Analysis, Synthesis, the Infinite, and Numbers, Page 300.
"A History of Mathematics," by Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
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