Blaise Pascal
Full Name-
Blaise Pascal
Born-
19 June 1623
Died-
19 August 1662
- Known for-
- Pascal's Wager
- Pascal's triangle
- Pascal's law
- Pascal's theorem
- Pascal's "Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle" of 1653 described a convenient tabular presentation for binomial coefficients, now called Pascal's triangle.
- Other Information
In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and 50 prototypes, he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) over the following 10 years, establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.
- Things named after him
- The SI unit of pressure,
- To a programming language,
- Pascal's law (an important principle of hydrostatics),
- Pascal's triangle and
- Pascal's wager
