Blaise Pascal : French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Philosopher, Writer, and Catholic Theologian

June 19, 1623 — August 19, 1662

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...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.

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