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Aug 21, 2007 · About the SEP. Special Characters. © Metaphysics Research Lab , CSLI , Stanford University. This is a file in the archives of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Blaise Pascal. First published Tue Aug 21, 2007. Pascal did not publish any philosophical works during his relatively brief lifetime.
Summary. Blaise Pascal was a very influential French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability. View seven larger pictures.
Blaise Pascal, (born June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France—died Aug. 19, 1662, Paris), French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. The son of a mathematician, he was a child prodigy, earning the envy of René Descartes with an essay he wrote on conic sections in 1640.
