Blaise Pascal
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France,
in the auvergne region of France. His mom died when
he was only three, leaving him with his dad who
educated him to become a child prodigy. Pascal's father
enjoyed math and science,and Blaise developed that love
as well. "Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and
applied sciences where he made important
contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators,
the study of fluids,and clarified the concepts of pressure and
Vacuum"-Wikipedia. When his father found him writing proof
that the sum of the angles of a triangle are equal to two right
angles,Étienne knew his son was truly following in his footsteps
to being a famous mathematician. Blaise, however was also studying
theology. Blaise died at the age of 39, in 1662, in Paris.
What is Pascal's triangle?
Basically the triangle is a triangle of numbers, each
related to eachother.
"At the tip of Pascal's Triangle is the number 1, which makes
up the zeroth row. The first row (1 & 1) contains two 1's,
both formed by adding the two numbers above them to the left
and the right, in this case 1 and 0 (all numbers outside the
Triangle are 0's). Do the same to create the 2nd row: 0+1=1;
1+1=2; 1+0=1. And the third: 0+1=1; 1+2=3; 2+1=3; 1+0=1. In
this way, the rows of the triangle go on infinitly. A number
in the triangle can also be found by nCr (n Choose r) where n
is the number of the row and r is the element in that row.
For example, in row 3, 1 is the zeroth element, 3 is element
number 1, the next three is the 2nd element, and the last 1 is
the 3rd element."-http://ptri1.tripod.com/
Helpful Pages and links!
http://www.thocp.net/biographies/pascal_blaise.html
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/pascal.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpascal.htm
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Pascal.html
Comments (16)
Anonymous said
at 10:15 pm on Nov 2, 2007
HEY KALA NICE PAGE
Anonymous said
at 9:58 am on Nov 5, 2007
nice page =) add some pictures
Anonymous said
at 10:04 am on Nov 5, 2007
good page =] add some pics
Anonymous said
at 10:10 am on Nov 5, 2007
nice page. Ur font kinda makes it hard to read, and the colors also.
Anonymous said
at 10:14 am on Nov 5, 2007
i really like your page but some of the words i don't know. maybe you should put the definiton of what some of the words mean such as prodigy.
Anonymous said
at 1:14 pm on Nov 5, 2007
very good info...you should put a picture of the Pascale's triangle
Anonymous said
at 1:17 pm on Nov 5, 2007
i love ur font colors and pics
Anonymous said
at 1:24 pm on Nov 5, 2007
I think this a cool topic
Alex L. said
at 2:36 pm on Nov 5, 2007
after the word "wikiepdia" you need to put a period and a space there
Anonymous said
at 2:50 pm on Nov 5, 2007
Too bright too big.
Anonymous said
at 5:40 pm on Nov 5, 2007
i love your topic. you might want to change the color and/or the font. together it makes it hard to read. and it looks a little squished. also, when you highlighted some words in pink, it looks kinda weird. anyways, i love the info. and lydia sent me a comment like that too. i think she should expand on what exactly she thinks. anyways. nice job!
Anonymous said
at 7:47 pm on Nov 5, 2007
Erm, because I'm evil, I'm going to point out some incorrect grammar(I think I spelled that incorrectly... o.O lol ). "...region of france. His mom died when he was only three, leaving him with his dad who educated him to Become a child prodigy..." There should be a capital F in France, and a lowercase b in become."...his footsteps to being a famousmathematician." Shouldn't" there be a space in between "famous" and "mathematician"? "...rows of the triangle go on infinitly..." I think it's spelled "infinitely". Please excuse my pickiness. 0_o =^__^=
Anonymous said
at 9:53 pm on Nov 5, 2007
hey kayla its lauren your page looks great by the way. just need some more pictures
Anonymous said
at 4:25 pm on Nov 7, 2007
GREAT PAGE
Anonymous said
at 9:58 am on Nov 13, 2007
where are you today ? today is tuesday . where r u? your page looks great by the way. put a comment for my page its grigori perelman. hope to see you tommorrow
Anonymous said
at 11:58 pm on Nov 14, 2007
A good concise biography. Although a lot of the content is not your own, you do a good job of giving credit you your sources. Formating problems make your page a bit hard to read.
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