Si Blaise Pascal ( pask-AL, -AHL, PASK-əl, -al, US: pah-SKAHL;[3][4][5][6][7] Pranses: [blɛz paskal]; 19 Hunyo 1623 – 19 Agosto 1662) sarong Pranses na matematiko, pisiko, imbentor, pilosopo, parasurat asin Katolikong teologo.
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Blaise Pascal |
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Painting of Pascal made by François II Quesnel for Gérard Edelinck in 1691 |
Kamundagan | (1623-06-19)19 Hunyo 1623 Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France |
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Kagadanan | 19 Agosto 1662(1662-08-19) (edad 39) Paris, France |
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Nasyunalidad | French |
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Era | 17th-century philosophy |
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Region | Western philosophy |
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School | Cartesianism Jansenism Fideism |
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Main interests | - Theology
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Physics
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Notable ideas | - Probability theory
- Pascal's wager
- Pascal's triangle
- Pascal's law
- Pascal's theorem
- Pascal's calculator
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Influences
- St. Augustine of Hippo
- Michel de Montaigne
- Étienne Pascal
- René Descartes
- Gilles de Roberval[1]
- Cornelius Jansen
- Epictetus
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Gerolamo Cardano[2]
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Influenced
- William Lane Craig
- Antoine Arnauld
- Pierre Duhem
- William James
- G. W. Leibniz
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Henri Bergson
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Saro siyang child prodigy na tinukduan kan saiyang ama, sarong mambububwis sa Rouen. An gibo ni Pascal sa matematika iyo an conic sections; nagsurat siya nin significant treatise sa mga temang projective geometry sa edad na 16. Nagsurat man siya kaiba ni Pierre de Fermat sa probability theory, na nakaimpluwensya sa modernong ekonomiya asin agham panlipunan. Kan 1642, siya sarong teenager, nagpuon siya magtrabaho sa mga makina sa pagkalkula (inaapod na Pascal's calculators na naging Pascalines), na siya nagin saro sa duwang imbentor kan mechanical calculator.[8][9]
- "Essai pour les coniques" [Essay on conics] (1639)
- Experiences nouvelles touchant le vide [New experiments with the vacuum] (1647)
- Récit de la grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs [Account of the great experiment on equilibrium in liquids] (1648)
- Traité du triangle arithmétique [Treatise on the arithmetical triangle] (written c. 1654;[10] publ. 1665)
- Lettres provinciales [The provincial letters] (1656–57)
- De l'Esprit géométrique [On the geometrical spirit] (1657 or 1658)
- Écrit sur la signature du formulaire (1661)
- Pensées [Thoughts] (incomplete at death; publ. 1670)
- Scientific revolution
- List of pioneers in computer science
- List of works by Eugène Guillaume
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- Pascal's Memorial in orig. French/Latin and modern English, trans. Elizabeth T. Knuth.
- Biography, Bibliography. (in French)
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- BBC Radio 4. In Our Time: Pascal.
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- Etext of Pascal's Pensées (English, in various formats)
- Etext of Pascal's Lettres Provinciales (English)
- Etext of a number of Pascal's minor works (English translation) including, De l'Esprit géométrique and De l'Art de persuader.
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Blaise Pascal", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews