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Blaise Pascal

1623 - 1662

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Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. Pascal was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Blaise Pascal is the 4th most popular mathematician (down from 2nd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from France and the most popular French Mathematician.

Blaise Pascal is most famous for his contributions to mathematics and the invention of the first mechanical calculator.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Blaise Pascal ranks 4 out of 1,004. Before him are Archimedes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Carl Friedrich Gauss. After him are Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, Ada Lovelace, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., and Bernhard Riemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1623, Blaise Pascal ranks 1. After him are William Petty, Ferdinand Verbiest, Antonio Cesti, Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg, Zhu Youlang, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Christian Louis I, François de Laval, Reinier Nooms, and Algernon Sidney. Among people deceased in 1662, Blaise Pascal ranks 1. After him are Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Koxinga, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Zhu Youlang, Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Johann Crüger, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Adriaen van de Venne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Blaise Pascal ranks 4 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoleon (1769), Louis XIV of France (1638), and René Descartes (1596). After him are Joan of Arc (1412), Louis XVI of France (1754), Victor Hugo (1802), Voltaire (1694), Louis Pasteur (1822), Claude Monet (1840), Jules Verne (1828), and Molière (1622).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Blaise Pascal ranks 1. After him are Pierre de Fermat (1601), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Henri Poincaré (1854), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Abraham de Moivre (1667).

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