| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Pascal, Blaise |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Pas·cal |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p -skl , pä-skäl |
| DATES: | 1623–1662 |
| French mathematician, philosopher and inventor. His early work included the invention of the adding machine and syringe, and the co-development with Fermat of the mathematical theory of probability. Later he became a Jansenist and wrote on philosophy and theology, notably as collected in the posthumous Pensées (1670).
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