Biographical Info
Biographical info   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pascal.html
Rouse Ball Bio   http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Pascal/RouseBall/RB_Pascal.html
Galileo project bio   http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/pascal_bla.html
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Blaise Pascal
1623 to 1662, France

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Famous Quotes
"I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess."  Quoted in W H Auden and L Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason."  Pensées (1670)
Concepts and Activities
Activities for Pascal's Triangle and Probability

Pascal's Triangle Activities (w/prints)   http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/pascal/
The Triangle and Fibonacci Sequences   http://milan.milanovic.org/math/english/contents.html
More Pascal's Triangle (w/prints)   http://www.math.umass.edu/~mconnors/fractal/generate/pascal.html
Many Pascal Triangle Activities Linked   http://ccins.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbfunpatt.htm
Upper Level Activities for Pascal   http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/nj_math_coalition/framework/ch14/ch14_07-08.html
Additional print teaching resources:
Pascal's Triangle: A Teacher's Guide With Blackline Masters
Pascal's Philosophical / Religious Writings

Pascal's Wager   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
Pensees online   http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/pensees/pensees.html

Biographical print resources:
Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart (Library of Religious Biography Series)
Significant Contributions
Significant contributions
1640 Pascal publishes Essay pour les coniques (Essay on Conic Sections).
1642 Pascal builds a calculating machine to help his father with tax calculations. It performs only additions.
1653 Pascal publishes Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle on "Pascal's triangle".
It had been studied by many earlier mathematicians.
1654 Pascal publishes his Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids on hydrostatics. He recognizes that force is transmitted equally in all directions through a fluid, and gives Pascal's law of pressure.


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