1. Blaise Pascal Brett Foran 8M1

2. Pascal’s Life Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-D ôme, France and died on August 19, 1662 in Paris. Pascal’s mother died when he was three and he was raised and educated by his mathematician father Etienne. Described as a young mathematical genius Pascal, by age 16, had researched and written on the subject of projective geometry and the the theory of probabilities. In 1964 Pascal abandoned maths for religion and wrote a lot of religious books around this time. Pascal died of abdominal problems and his last words were “may God never abandon me”. He was buried in the cemetery of Saint-Etienne-Du-Mont. In honour of Pascal, his name has been given to a unit of pressure, to a computing language and to Pascal’s wager and Pascal’s triangle.