~~Blaise+Pascal~~

[] Name: Blaise Pascal Date of birth and death: 1623- 1662 Country of origin: France Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. As a children he was educated by his father and his cleverness drew great expectations. He began his scientific career at the age of 16 and his earliest work made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method. In 1646, he had his second religious "conversion" into the Catholic movement known as Jansenism. He abandoned his scientific work after 1654 and turned to the subjects of philosophy and theology. His life was plagued with illnesses and his poor health led to his death when he was only 39 years old. Pascal was an excellent mathematision. He wrote a significant treatise on geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with probability theory. He strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1646, he discreditted Aristotle's followers who insisted that there are no vacuums in nature. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids. []