On Aug. 19, 1662, French philosopher, mathematician and apologist Blaise Pascal died at just 39 years old. Pascal, despite his shortened life, is renowned for pioneering work in geometry, physics and ...

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal was an all-around intellectual bad-ass. In his rather short life — Pascal succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 39 — he managed to ...

Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) made important contributions to mathematics in general and the theory of probability in particular. Without him, our current understanding of judgment and decision making ...

“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I ...