On Aug. 19, 1662, French philosopher, mathematician and apologist Blaise Pascal died at just 39 years old. Pascal, despite his shortened life, is renowned for pioneering work in geometry, physics and ...
In 1654, two giants of mathematics, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, began to exchange letters about games of chance. This correspondence resulted in Pascal writing Traité du triangle arithmétique, ...
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School (MTMS) is an official peer-reviewed journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and is intended as a resource for middle school students, ...
Blaise Pascal was 17th century genius who invented the mechanical calculator. Pierre de Fermat is famous for a theorem that took three hundred years to prove. What could bring these two minds together ...
Readers of the Italian newspaper La Repub­blica have been following a series of freewheeling conversations between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s founder and a celebrated atheist now ...
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal was an all-around intellectual bad-ass. In his rather short life — Pascal succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 39 — he managed to ...
1 - Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, inventor and Christian philosopher who was born on June 19, 1623. 2 - In poor health much of his life, Pascal died at only 39, on Aug. 19, 1662. 3 - As a ...