Biography Of Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623 1662 AD).

Was born in Clermont Ferrand on 19 June 1623. Her father Etienne Pascal, a royal adviser and later president of the Court of Aids at Clermont. His mother died when he was 3 years old, leaving him and his two sisters,Gilberte and Jacqueline. In 1631 his family moved to Paris.

Since the age of 12 years, he has invited his father to attend regular gatheringsmathematical discussion. His father taught him the language, especially Latin andGreek, but not mathematics. His father accidentally skip math lesson to Pascal solely toprovoke curiosity of the child. Pascal He experimented with geometric forms, and found the standard geometry formulas and give the name of the formula with his own name.

In 1640 the Pascal family moved to Rouen. At that time, he still taught by his father, Blaise worked with such intensity that his own health deteriorated. His labor was in vain, he finally found a beautiful theorems in geometry.

Sometimes he called the theorem as a "mystic hexagram" a theorem about the intersection between the line of equality. Not a theorem which simply calculates the balance of form, but, more fundamentally and importantly, the time it had neverdeveloped into a branch of mathematics - geometry projection. Pascal then set to workon a book, Essay on Conics, which finished in 1640, where the mystic hexagram wasthe main, that several hundred propositions on the cone, as well as the work of Apollonius, was remarkable not only because he is still very young (16 years) but also because of its tangens elements.

Major Ideas Of Blaise Pascal:

• The weakness of human reason leads to ultimate, complete skepticism.
• The misery of man without God is the ordinary human condition.
• Scientific knowledge cannot provide happiness.
• There is the need for grace to be moral and happy.
• It is the nature of science that it is at best only hypothetical.
• Mathematics is true only as an axiom system.
•  Ultimate knowledge is based on faith.
• Man has no choice but to seek God or reject Him.
• With faith, one can provide "proofs" of the Christian religion.