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The Life and Faith of Blaise Pascal George W.

Benthien September 14, Contents Introduction 2 Brief Biography 4 Contributions to Science 9 Pascal and Mathematics 14 Contributions to Lierature 16 The Faith of Blaise Pascal 18 References 21 Apendix A: Pascal’s Triangle 22 Appendix B: Analysis of Unfinished Game Problem 25 1 Blaise Pascal (–) Introduction Who was Blaise Pascal?

Was he a mathematician, an inventor, a scientist, an engineer, a literary giant, a philosopher, a theologian?

One says that the sovereign good consists in virtue, an- other in pleasure, another in the knowledge of nature, an- other in truth, Felix qui potuit reriim.

In this paper I discuss the work of Blaise Pascal in mathematics, physics, engineering, and philosophy as well as his Christian faith.

Blaise Pascal was born June 19, into a cultured family in his mother died, Pascal's father, also a respected mathematician, was left to raise.

Blaise Pascal ().

Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and theologian born in As a child prodigy, he made important contributions to projective.

The answer to all these is yes. In his short lifetime (39 years) he made important contributions in all these areas. In mathematics his biggest contribution was probably his collaboration with Pierre de Fermat to form the beginnings of probability theory.

Most students of mathematics are familiar with an arrangement of numbers called Pascal’s triangle. Pascal didn’t actually invent this triangle, but he made extensive use of it in the combinatorial problems associate