French, mathematician and scientist, Blasius Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand in central France on June 19th, 1623. In 1621 his mother passed away and he, along with his two sisters Gilberte and Etienne, and their father. they were forced to migrate to France in 1631. Blasius did not attend the university, he was educated by his father; this was what you would call a prodigy child.
His father wanted him to learn languages. But the child’s curiosity is the best. At the age of eighteen, he inquired what geometry was, and at last he formulated the propositions of Euclidean Geometry. When he was fourteen years old, he was sent to a weekly meeting by Roberval, Mersenna, Mydorge, and other French geometers.
About the year 17, he wrote a treatise on Conic Sections. At the age of 16, the young Paschal came up with “Paschal’s Theorem”, which was formulated for projective geometry. This was finally said by him.
When Paschal was about 18 years old, he made the first addition machine known today as a calculator. It was made by hand crank. Later in the 18th century and the 19th century the machine was improved, then in the 20th century computers did math. He thought of it, when his father was appointed king in Normandy, and many things were in financial affairs, and he thought of this help.
Later it was called Paschal with Pascal’s law. This law states that moisture releases pressure evenly throughout and in all directions. He arrived at this law after proving to other mathematicians that the level of the mercury column in the barometer is determined by the increase or decrease of the surrounding pressure. In 1650 he began to lose interest in what he loved most, religion. At the same time he talked with the youngest of his sisters to enroll in the Port Royal Society, where later they became part of this nunnery. it is.
In 1650 the Paschal religious movement in France became involved with Jansenism. He quickly abandoned that which he loved most to pursue the study of religion.
Pascal returned to Paris again in 1647 for his father’s second retirement. After a mysterious experience one night, which happened on November 23, 1654, he had a conversion, and he defended Jansenism against the Jesuits in provincial letters. In 1655 he returned to Port-Royal des Champs. The Paschal system of transportation worked in Paris in 1660-1662.
In 1653 he had to assume his old life again because he was managing his country’s farm. He continues to go with the pressure, encouraged by the vapors; it was also at this time that he wrote “The Arithmetical Treatment of the Triangle.” We also know Pascal’s triangle. He began to move the math again.
Pascal began to use the “arithmetic triangle” as early as 1653, but there were no printed copies of the method until 1655. A triangle is erected with a horizontal line from the top creating every number in it. equal to the sum of those above.
So that the Paschal triangle can be erected more simply in this formation. In the first row, write the number 1. Then to complete the following rows, add the number above the number to the left and the number above the number to the right to find the new value. If there was a zero number to the left, or even to the right, a zero should take its place.
Pascal’s last mathematical work was with the cycloid. This is the curve from a point on the circumference of the hoop, with the only straight path. In 1630 this curve was called by Galileo, of which this figure is the most ornamented, so that bridges and arches, etc., were built in this form. In 1634, 4 years later, Roberval had also discovered the area of the cycloid. The same challenge was also sent to Fermat who immediately problem solved.
He had injured his general health throughout the necessity of his studies; since he was 17-18 years old he was suffering from insomnia and what some believe was a stomach problems that brought him here. He also had very poor circulation and was forced to wear a pack to keep his feet warm. These things weakened him with sickness, and he could not walk without the help of his side.
Then he moved to the house of his sisters, hoping to be able to help him and take care of him, and in 1662 he was completely finished where he died in Paris in one of the sisters’ house on the 19th of August. /sup>, 1662
