How did blaise pascal die
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Clermont (now Clermont-Ferrand), Auvergne, France
Paris, France
He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability.
Biography
Blaise Pascal was the third of Étienne Pascal's children and his only son.Blaise pascal fun facts
Blaise's mother died when he was only three years old. In 1632 the Pascal family, Étienne and his four children, left Clermont and settled in Paris. Blaise Pascal's father had unorthodox educational views and decided to teach his son himself.
Étienne Pascal decided that Blaise was not to study mathematics before the age of 15 and all mathematics texts were removed from their house. Blaise however, his curiosity raised by this, started to work on geometry himself at the age of 12.
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