Blaise Pascal

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Christian apologist human inventor mathematician philosopher physicist theologian writer

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.

Aliases (1)

Pascal's calculator ×1

Statements (75)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Christian apologist → human → inventor → mathematician → philosopher → physicist → theologian → writer →
burialPlace	Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Paris →
causeOfDeath	stomach cancer → tuberculosis →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1623-06-19 →
dateOfDeath	1662-08-19 →
era	17th century →
ethnicGroup	French →
familyName	Pascal →
father	Étienne Pascal →
fieldOfWork	fluid mechanics → hydrostatics → mathematics → mechanical computing → philosophy → physics → probability theory → projective geometry → theology →
givenName	Blaise →
hasAcademicDiscipline	apologetics → natural philosophy →
influenced	Fyodor Dostoevsky → Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz → Pierre-Simon Laplace → Søren Kierkegaard → William James → existentialist philosophy →
influencedBy	Augustine of Hippo → Pierre de Fermat → René Descartes →
knownFor	Pascal's law → 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 → Pascal's triangle → Pascal's wager → foundations of probability theory → principle of mathematical expectation →
notableWork	Expériences nouvelles touchant le vide → Lettres provinciales → Pascal's calculator → Pensées → Traité du triangle arithmétique →
occupation	essayist → inventor → mathematician → philosopher → physicist → theologian →
placeOfBirth	Clermont-Ferrand → Kingdom of France →
placeOfDeath	Kingdom of France → Paris →
religion	Catholicism →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Jacqueline Pascal →
workLocation	Paris → Rouen →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Augustine of Hippo → Michel de Montaigne → Port-Royal-des-Champs →	influenced
Emil Cioran → Fyodor Dostoevsky → Jakob Bernoulli →	influencedBy
Pascal → Pascal's identity → Pascal's triangle →	namedAfter
Jansenist abbey of Port-Royal → Port-Royal-des-Champs →	associatedWith
Scientific Revolution →	hasParticipant
Pierre de Fermat →	notableColleague
French Renaissance →	notableFigure
Blaise Pascal ("Pascal's calculator") →	notableWork