Pascal's Triangle

 

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Fun fact: The sum of each row is an exponent of 11!

Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He was a mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He is not just famous for creating Pascal's Triangle, he also created Pascal's principles of pressure, and he wrote a religious doctrine that instead of experiencing God through reason it should be through the heart. His principles influenced later philosophers including Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henri Bergson. He most mainly impacted by his family. His father was a respected mathematician, and his sister was a literary prodigy. With his success in mathematics, he was able to help his father who was a judge in the tax court by creating the Pascaline, which was a machine that helped calculate taxes. This was the machine that really made him famous. For a while, he tested the theories of many later earlier physicist like Galileo, and Evangelista Torricelli. He reproduced and expanded many earlier experiments. While doing these experiments he invented the hydraulic press and the syringe. After a life filled with many accomplishments, he died on August 19, 1662, Paris, France.