Full Name: Blaise Pascal
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Father: Étienne Pascal (1588–1651)
Mother: Antoinette Begon (d. 1626)

Date of Birth: 19 June 1623
Birth Place: Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France

Date of Death: 19 August 1662 (aged 39)
Death Place: Paris, France
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis
Remains: Buried, St. Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, France

Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist
Nationality: France

Main interests: Theology, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics.

Notable Ideas: Pascal's Wager, Pascal's triangle, Pascal's law, Pascal's theorem.

Influenced By: St. Augustine of Hippo, Michel de Montaigne, René Descartes, Cornelius Jansen, Epictetus.

Influenced: Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Duhem, William James, Gottfried Leibniz, Henri Bergson, David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche.

Major Writings: Nouvelles expériences touchant le Vide (1647), Lettres escrites à un Provincial (1656-57), Traité de l'équilibre des liqueurs (1663), La Vérité du Vide (1664), Pensées sur la Religion (1669).

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and theologian Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a precocious and influential mathematical writer, a master of the French language and a great religious philosopher. He created essential factors inside the arithmetic triangle and cycloid. Together with Fermat, Pascal came up with the actual calculus of probabilities, which usually afterwards triggered the foundation of the mathematical theory of probabilities. His other notable contributions are including Pascal's Wager, Pascal's triangle, Pascal's law, and Pascal's theorem.

Early Life & Childhood: Blaise Pascal was born on 19 June 1623 at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France. His father, Étienne, was a civil servant and served as the king's counsellor. Blaise's mother, Antoinette, died in 1626. He had two sisters, Jacqueline and Gilberte. In 1631 the family moved to Paris, France. At the age of 11, Pascal constructed a short note on sounds of vibrating bodies which amazed his father. Impressed by his mathematical interests his father gathered the greatest mathematicians and scientists' writings such as Roberval, Desargues, Mydorge, Gassendi, and Descartes. At the age of sixteen, Pascal wrote a short treatise on the Mystic Hexagram. In 1642, he constructed a mechanical calculator.

Later Life & Death: In 1647, Blaise Pascal published his Experiences nouvelles touchant le vide. His father died in 1651. In 1653, he published Traité du triangle arithmétique which now known as Pascal’s triangle. Blaise Pascal faced a near-death accident at the Neuilly Bridge in 1554. In January 1655, Pascal made a visit to convents at Port-Royal and frequently travelled between Port-Royal and Paris for the following years. From 1656 to 1657, he published this 18-letter series under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte and incensed Louis XIV. The king ordered that the book be shredded and burnt in 1660. He became seriously ill in 1559. He died on 19 August 1662 and was buried at St. Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, France.