Blaise Pascal
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Blaise Pascal was a 17th-century French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and theologian known for foundational work in probability theory, projective geometry, fluid mechanics, and for inventing one of the first mechanical calculators.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal canonical | 59 |
| Pascal's calculator | 1 |
Statements (75)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian apologist
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human ⓘ inventor ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physicist ⓘ theologian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
stomach cancer
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tuberculosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1623-06-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1662-08-19 ⓘ |
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName | Pascal ⓘ |
| father | Étienne Pascal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fluid mechanics
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hydrostatics ⓘ mathematics ⓘ mechanical computing ⓘ philosophy ⓘ physics ⓘ probability theory ⓘ projective geometry ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Blaise ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
apologetics
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natural philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ⓘ Pierre-Simon Laplace ⓘ Søren Kierkegaard ⓘ William James ⓘ existentialist philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Augustine of Hippo
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Pierre de Fermat ⓘ René Descartes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Pascal's law
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Pascal's triangle ⓘ Pascal's wager ⓘ contributions to projective geometry ⓘ experiments on atmospheric pressure ⓘ foundational work in probability theory ⓘ invention of an early mechanical calculator ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| memberOf | Académie de Paris ⓘ |
| mother | Antoinette Begon ⓘ |
| movement | Jansenism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
Pascal's law
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Pascal's triangle ⓘ Pascal's wager ⓘ foundations of probability theory ⓘ principle of mathematical expectation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Expériences nouvelles touchant le vide
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Lettres provinciales ⓘ Blaise Pascal self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pascal's calculator
Pensées ⓘ Pascal's triangle ⓘ
surface form:
Traité du triangle arithmétique
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| occupation |
essayist
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inventor ⓘ mathematician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physicist ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Clermont-Ferrand
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Kingdom of France ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Kingdom of France
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Paris ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Jacqueline Pascal ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Paris
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Rouen ⓘ |
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Pascal's calculator