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SOME BACKGROUND

• Born June 19, 1623 - Clermont, France
• French philosopher and scientist
• Died August 19, 1662 - Paris

PASCAL’S HOME

- Laid foundation for modern theory of probability
- Founded what came to be known as Pascal’s principle of pressure

- Propagated a religious doctrine and taught experience of God through the heart rather than reason

- Establishment of his principle of intuition impacted on later philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henn Bergson

PASCAL’S TRIANGLE

- Formed by starting with an apex of one
- Every number in the triangle in the next picture is the sum of the two numbers diagonally above it to the left and to the right with the positions outside the triangle counting as zero

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Pascal’s Triangle is a special triangular arrangement of numbers used in many areas of mathematics. It’s named after Blaise Pascal because he developed so many of the triangles properties.