Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a Tax Collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes[1] he invented the mechanical calculator.[2][3] He built twenty of these machines (called the Pascaline) in the following ten years.[4] Pascal was a mathematician of the first order. He helped create two major new areas of research. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refutedAristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. His results caused many disputes before being accepted.
In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicismknown by its detractors as Jansenism.[5] His father died in 1651. Following a mysticalexperience in late 1654, he had his "second conversion", abandoned his scientific work, and devoted himself to philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists andJesuits. In this year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.
Pascal had poor health especially after his eighteenth year and his death came just two months after his 39th birthday.[6]
1.- ¿Cuando nació y murió Blaise Pascal?
Nació el 19 de junio de 1623 y murió el 19 de agosto de 1662.
2.- ¿Cuales fueron las carrera de Blaise Pascal?
Matemático, físico, filósofo y teólogo
3.- ¿Cuales fueron sus trabajos más resaltantes?
Invención y construcción de calculadoras mecánicas, la teoría matemática de probabilidad, investigaciones sobre los fluidos y conceptos de la presión y el vacío.
4.- ¿Qué ocurre cuando subre una "segunda conversión"?
Abandonó las matemáticas y la física para dedicarse a la filosofía y a la teología.
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