Blaise_Pascal

Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal was a great mathematician who lived in 17th Century France. His mother was Antoinette Begon; she died when Blaise was three. His father, Etienne took the responsibility of bringing him up. Pascal had two sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. Pascal began his studies in 1635 with his reading of Euclid’s Elements and mastered them by age 12. This won the boy respect for his great talent in mathematics. Pascal in fact did not attend school; instead, Etienne brought him to lectures and mathematical gatherings at the “Academie Parsienne” nearly from its founding. At the early age of 16, Pascal began to play an active role in “Academie Parisienne”. There, Pascal became the principal disciple of Girard Desargues, a professor working there because he was the only one who appreciated his work in geometry. Pascal began work on conics and published several papers to do with geometry. In fact, in June 1639, Pascal has already made a significant discovery with his “mystical hexagram”. In 1641, he began to suffer from problems of health that delayed his research for a year, but he recovered and continued his work. In 1642, Pascal began to create a machine that would be similar to pascal, work, began, because, religion, mathematical, been, age, working, sur, royal, research, problems, pensées, one, monastery, model, mathematics, made, life, great, geometry, france, finished, final, father, fact, etienne, early, died, blaise, academie, 1658, 1646, 1645, years