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Blaise Pascal

1623 - 1662

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal ( pass-KAL, also UK: -⁠KAHL, PASS-kəl, -⁠kal, US: pahs-KAHL; French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Blaise Pascal has received more than 3,939,693 page views. His biography is available in 127 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Blaise Pascal is the 2nd most popular mathematician, the 7th most popular biography from France and the most popular French Mathematician.

Blaise Pascal is most famous for his contributions to mathematics and the invention of the first mechanical calculator.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Blaise Pascal ranks 2 out of 828. Before him are Archimedes. After him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Pierre de Fermat, and Fibonacci.

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Archimedes
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HPI: 93.93
Rank: 1
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
HPI: 90.70
Rank: 2
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HPI: 89.18
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Leonhard Euler
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HPI: 87.50
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HPI: 87.03
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Hypatia
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HPI: 85.49
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Bertrand Russell
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HPI: 84.90
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Pierre de Fermat
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1623, Blaise Pascal ranks 1. After him are William Petty, Ferdinand Verbiest, Zhu Youlang, Antonio Cesti, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg. Among people deceased in 1662, Blaise Pascal ranks 1. After him are Koxinga, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Zhu Youlang, Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria, Honoré II, Prince of Monaco, Alfonso IV d'Este, Duke of Modena, Johann Crüger, William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Adriaen van de Venne, and François le Métel de Boisrobert.

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Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
HPI: 90.70
Rank: 1
William Petty
1623 - 1687
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 2
Ferdinand Verbiest
1623 - 1688
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 3
Zhu Youlang
1623 - 1662
HPI: 68.80
Rank: 4
Antonio Cesti
1623 - 1669
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 5
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1623 - 1673
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 6
Margravine Hedwig Sophie of Brandenburg
1623 - 1683
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 7