Blaise Pascal
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was born at Clermont, Auvergne, France on June 19, 1628.
He was the son of Étienne Pascal, his father, and Antoinette Bégone, his mother
who died when Blaise was only four years old. After her death, his only family
was his father and his two sisters, Gilberte, and Jacqueline, both of whom
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.... opposition, Blaise
demanded to know ‘what was mathematics?' His father told him, "that generally
speaking, it was the way of making precise figures and finding the proportions
among them." (P 39,Cole) This set him going and during his play times in this
room he figured out ways to draw geometric figures such as perfect circles, and
equilateral triangles, all of this he accomplished. Due to the fact that É
tienne took such painstaking measures to hide mathematics from Blaise, to the
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