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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1872 words (7.49 pages) in the essay titled Blaise Pascal Blaise PascalBy Victoria Hubble Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 19th, 1623. His mother, Antoinette Begon, died when he was three; and his father, Etienne, who was a local judge with a scientific reputation, brought him up. Etienne Pascal retired and moved to Paris in 1631 to concentrate on his own scientific research and to take care of his son, Blaise, and his two daughters, Gilberte and Jaqueline. Etienne had unorthodox views of education and decided to tutor his only son himself. Etienne Pascal locked up all the mathematics texts in the house because he believed that it was too exciting for young minds to be studying mathematics before the age of 15 and he was not going to sap his gifted child’s energy from all other pursuits. At age 12, Blaise was curious about geometry and deduced as far as Proposition 32 of Euclid’s Elements ( the sum of angles of a triangle are two right angles) by himself without any mathematics training. When his father found out, Blaise was allowed to read his father’s mathematics books, because his father knew that he couldn’t stop his genius son anymore. The young Pascal began to participate with his father in Mersenne’s Circle, a weekly discussion group of scientists and mathematicians, In this plantation of intellects, he learned from Girard Desargues, who had just published a projective geometry book but was not well rec... |
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