1)three major events that occured in the mathematician's life
2)three acomplishments in Mathematics
3)three facts of interest about him
Lastly, the Mathematician's Main Contribution(the formula/concept derived)
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2007-02-28 20:19:10 · 3 answers · asked by Jayden 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Blaise Pascal was a very influencial French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability.
Some interesting quotations of him:
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us from seeing it.
Very interesting person, very thoughtful, very clever.
2007-02-28 20:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by neph3lyn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Type 'Blaise Pascal' into any search engine and you'll get thousands of hits. You go wade through them because only -you- know exactly what you're looking for.
HTH âº
Doug
2007-02-28 20:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look him up on www.wikipedia.org and you may be surprised.
2007-02-28 20:33:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋