Life of Pascal

BLAISE PASCAL

Blaise Pascal is the man who invented the Pascal Triangle . He was born on June 19 , 1623 , in Clermont Avvergne , France (which now is Clermont - Ferrand ). He was the only son of three children. As you can tell, he must of had two sisters (well he did ) . Blaise was the youngest of them . His mother died when he was three years old . He lived with his father , Etienne Pascal . They moved to Paris in 1632 . His father decided to teach his son himself . Blaise was not allowed to study math untill he was 15 years old . To be sure he did not study math all the math books were took out of the house . He got so curious at the age of 12 that he started working on geometry himself . When his father found out about it he
reluctantly allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid . At the age of 14 Blaise started to go with his father to Mersennes meetings, where a large group of mathematicians would meet regularly . At the age of 15 Blaise admired the work of Dseargues . At 16 he produced a singe paper at a Mersennes meeting in June 1639, with a number of projecting geometry
thereoms displayed on it , including Pascal's mistic hexagon. During 1642 and 1645, Pascal became the first to create a digital calculator . Blaise Pascal died on August 19 1662.