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French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal, though raised in the heyday of Enlightenment thought, found reason inadequate: "Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite ...

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Like several others on this list, Frenchman Blaise Pascal was a philosopher and mathematician. His mother died in 1626, when ...

The French mathematician Blaise Pascal, like many of the people on this list, contributed to a number of fields of mathematics. Pascal's Triangle provides a remarkably elegant way to calculate ...

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Blaise Pascal builds a mechanical calculator in ... is the Analytical Engine - a mechanical computer that can solve any mathematical problem. It uses punch-cards similar to those used by the ...

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