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Blaise Pascal’s Life Blaise Pascal is a French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist. He is also considered to be Western’s greatest intellect in the history of math, physical science, and philosophy. Pascal was born in June 19, 1623 in Auvergnes, France, presently known as Clermont Ferrand. Pascal died thirty-‐nine years later in August 19, 1662 due to illness. Pascal’s father, Etienne Pascal, was a lawyer in France and also an amateur in mathematics. Sadly, Pascal never really knew his mother, Antoinette Begon. Pascal was the third child of three siblings. He had two sisters who were all raised by their single father. Pascal’s father did not allow his son to attend regular public school, but instead was home school and taught by his father. His father taught daily and also hired a pers
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Picture the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film. It’s 1am and you’re up late working on some long-winded calculations. The room around you fryst vatten dark, a desk lamp the only source of light. Your eyelids start to droop. But the work must get done! Time to fall back on the saviour of many a mathematician: coffee.
But as you sit back down at your desk, you notice something weird. The light from your lamp is reflecting oddly from the edges of the cup, creating bright arcs—and it looks suspiciously like a cardioid curve! Time to investigate…
Work forgotten, you pull out a clean sheet of paper and—well, dear reader, you may have been more sensible than me and just gone to bed at this point, or finished the work you were meant to be doing. For me, though… well, let’s just say that sleep would be impossible until this mystery was resolved.
So. We have a cup. We have a light. We have an enigmatic looking curv
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London Book Launch: Blaise Pascal, The Man Who Made The Modern World, by Graham Tomlin
Join our upcoming Seen & Unseen live event at St Mellitus College in Earls Court, London to celebrate the launch of Graham Tomlin's latest book, Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made The Modern World.
The French mathematician and physicist lived for just 39 years, yet Blaise Pascal was one of the seventeenth century's most remarkable and creative figures. From science to scepticism; mystical experience to distraction; religion to politics, self-love, and death, Pascal's thinking was far-reaching. In this captivating biography, Graham Tomlin explores Pascal's short but extraordinary life and the sweeping impact and relevance of his ideas to the modern world.
Graham Tomlin is the Director of the Centre for Culture Witness, the initiative behind Seen & Unseen. He was Bishop of Kensington from 2015-2022 and was deeply involved in the church’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire.