Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
1623 - 1662
• Father of Modern
Calculators
• Pascal’s works in
Mathimatics
• Pascal’s works in
Physics
• Pascal’s works in
Philosophy
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
• Father of modern
Calculators
• Built for Etienne Pascal,
his father a accountant
for the King of France
• Built in 1639
• Prove to society that
human brain power can
be artificially produced
by machine
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
• Pascal’s Law: states that in a fluid at rest,
the pressure on any surface exerts a force
perpendicular to the surface and
independent of the direction of orientation
of the surface.
• In 1647, Pascal published New Experiments
Concerning the Void.
• Born at Clerment-Ferrand in June 19, 1623.
• Mother died when Pascal was three years old.
• Brought up by two sisters: Gilberte, author of an
excellent biography on Pascal, and Jacqueline, who
competed with Pascal as a child prodigy.
• Died at the age of 39 in intense pain from cancer.
• In one of his most famous books, he says: “If God does
not exist, one stands to lose nothing by believing in him
anyway, whereas if he does exist, one stands to lose
everything by not believing,” which is said to be his
motto.
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
• Pascal’s Theorem which deals with
conic section
• In 1640, wrote Essay on Conic
Section
• Helped laid down the principles of
the Theroy of Probability