Blaise Pascal

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                  a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.  He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father.


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• Pascal was a prodigious mathematician and philosopher.
• Pascal was enormously influenced by the writings of Michel de Montaigne, the great French Renaissance skeptic.
• Pascal wrote the quote "the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."

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          Catholic Education
          Britannica


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                Pascal was a 17th century philosopher and mathematician born in France.  Among his greatest and most well known achievements is Pascal's Triangle (shown below) where the two numbers below equal the amount that is above it.  He also wrote the Provincial Letters.


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