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Blaise Pascal, born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, Fr. died Aug. 19, 1662, Paris. Pascal was a French mathematician, philosopher and inventor. His early work included the invention of the adding machine and syringe, and the co-development with Fermat of the mathematical theory of probability. Later Pascal became a Jansenist and wrote on philosophy and theology, notably as collected in the posthumous Pensées. His ideas on inner religion influenced Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henri Bergson, and the Existentialists.
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Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose. Pascal laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, formulated what came to be known as Pascal's law of pressure, and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason. The establishment of his principle of intuitionism had an impact on such later philosophers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henri Bergson and also on the Existentialists. |
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