Blasie pascal - by kyu ho lee

OVERVIEW: ADOLESCENCE
After he started studding about Math, especially Geometry, his father, Etienne support him in many ways. As an example, he
accompany him to meetings at Mersenne's Academy in Paris. By the Academy, he could have some exchanges with peer
mathematicians, and that accelerate the study of Pascal a lot. One instance of his achievements, Mystic Hexagram and Essai pour
les Coniques (1640) are the most earliest achievements that Pascal made before he moved his home to Rouen. At 1640, Because of
political turmoil, Etienne have to move toward Rouen, for a taw gatherer. It didn’t impact pascal really, so he kept study about the
math and physics, which he had an interest and started studying for few years ago. Teacher who thought him is Académie libre, they
are just the group of scientist and philosophers. Pascal introduced to them by his father. In that group, he studied philosophical
thinking and math, physics and other academic subjects that pascal needed help.
For the other example of his achievements, he made the first calculator, which named as “pascal line”. He invented this
machine for his father’s working. Since Etienne was a tax gatherer, he needed many calculation for his work. And Pascal felt
interesting about it, and developed that idea to machine help calculation. Pascal’s triangle, which is well known is also invented
during this time period .
Pascal line: world first calculator