Blaise pascal
INTERESTING FACS ABOUT Blaise pascalPascal's early education in France was conducted at home by his father due to the prodigious talent and understanding he showed as a child.
At age sixteen, he wrote an essay on what was known as the "Mystic Hexagram." This essay was called his "Essay on Conics," which he sent to Père Mersenne. This theorem, which is known to this day as Pascal's theorem, was so profound that critics like Descartes were initially certain that Pascal's father had written. Pascal's theorem states that a hexagon inscribed in a circle, or conic, forms a line where the three points of opposite sides lie. The line is known as the Pascal line. Other major contributions Pascal made while still in his teenaged years include being one of only two people who developed and constructed a working mechanical calculator.(Blaise Pascal Facts. (2017). Softschools.com. Retrieved 1 March 2017, from http://www.softschools.com/facts/scientists/blaise_pascal_facts/820/) |