Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 to 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and Catholic writer. A child prodigy educated by his father Étienne Pascal, a tax collector in Rouen, he wrote a significant treatise on conic sections at the age of sixteen, his earliest mathematical work being on projective geometry. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science, and from 1642 did pioneering work on calculating machines, called Pascal's calculators or Pascalines, which made him one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator. He also made important contributions to the study of fluids and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum.
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His earliest mathematical work was on projective geometry; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of conic sections at the age of 16.
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It was formulated by Blaise Pascal in a note written in 1639 when he was 16 years old and published the following year as a broadside titled "Essay pour les coniques.
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it is named after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal
Binomial Theorem (Wikipedia)
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known the results around 1570. The second formula was rigorously proven by Pascal in 1654 through the use of complete induction. By the
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