Goodguy Has a Good Point

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CARR

>Pascal not a Christian! Incredible! He was a devout Roman Catholic.

>Where is your info coming from?


ADNAN
Pascal was converted to Jansenism, a Roman Catholic reform movement. Even
though his "Pascal's Wager" is quite absurd, he was a brilliant
mathematician. At the age of 12 he figured out a proposition of Euclidean
geometry by himself. At 17 he wrote an essay on conic sections; it
contained a theorem on conic sections that was named for him. He also
constructed the first digital calculating machine. His further studies in
geometry, hydrodynamics, and hydrostatic and atmospheric pressure led him
to the invention of the syringe and the hydraulic press.  For friends who
gambled, he calculated chances of loss or gain; this led him into work on
probability theory and to the discovery of the arithmetical triangle. In a
treatise on numerical powers, he deduced the principles of integral
calculus.  

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