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Blaise Pascal Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont, Auvergne, France. ->>

Pascal invented the first mechanical calculator in 1642. He made it" while trying to help his father who had been assigned the task of reorganizing the tax revenues of the French province of Haute-Normandie; first called Arithmetic Machine, Pascal's Calculator and later Pascaline, it could add and subtract directly and multiply and divide by repetition." (Pascal's Calculator, Wikipedia)

One of the major ways Pascal impacted mathematics in today's world is he invented Pascal's Triangle.

“ In addition to his work in geometry and calculus, he founded probability theory, and made contributions to axiomatic theory.” (Allen, Greatest Mathematicians) His work in probability was related back to his work in the production of his triangle.

He led a lonely life. He died without a wife and no children. Yet his legacy lives on in today's world especially with calculators. Everyone owns some type of calculator and computers come pre-installed with them. That's only one example though. Pascal had a significant impact on math. I wonder what he would say if he knew that all of his works were used?