Tu m etienne pascal biography

          Blaise Pascal was born on 19 June at Clermont (in the city was to be amalgamated with Montferrand and become Clermont-.

        1. Blaise Pascal was born on 19 June at Clermont (in the city was to be amalgamated with Montferrand and become Clermont-.
        2. He was born on 19 June , at Clermont (now Clermont-Ferrand) in Auvergne, where his mother died when he was three.
        3. Blaise Pascal (), the French philosopher and scientist, was one of the greatest and most influential mathematicians of all time.
        4. The careful and systematic education which he gave to his son would alone have stamped him as a man of remarkable intelligence.
        5. Pascal was linked to the neo-Augustinian theology of the convent of Port-Royal — so much is certain — and clear evidence of that affiliation is.

          6. Blaise Pascal (), the French philosopher and scientist, was one of the greatest and most influential mathematicians of all time..

          Biography

          Étienne Pascal's parents were Martin Pascal, who was treasurer of France, and Marguerite Pascal de Mons.

          Étienne was trained in law in Paris, receiving his degree in 1610. He returned to his home town of Clermont were he purchased the post of counsellor for Bas-Auvergne, the region around Clermont, in 1610. He came from a wealthy family so had ample money and had no need to earn a living.

          However he was keen to reach high positions in the service of the French nation so he sought influential jobs. Perhaps at this stage we should put his life into context by saying a few words about France in this period.

          Blaise Pascal was the middle child of an upper- class magistrate in Clermont–Ferrand, France.

          Louis XIII had become King of France in 1610, the year in which Étienne Pascal was awarded his law degree. The fact that Louis XIII's father Henry IV had been assassinated by a fanatical Roman Catholic, and Louis was only nine years old when he succeeded to the throne, already gives some idea of the political situation.

          It was a time of revolt by the French peasants and