Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont on June the 19th 1623 and died in Paris on August the 19th 1662. Blaise Pascals dad was a judge so they moved to Paris in 1631. In Paris he stayed at home learning different languages. Until one day when he was 12 he asked his teacher what geometry was. Blaise was so amazed by the answer that he started studying geometry in his free time. Pascals dad saw that he was interested in it so he gave him a book called Euclids Elements Blaise read this many times.
When Blaise was 14 he started having meetings with Roberval, Mersenne, Mydorge who were French geometricians. In 1641 when he was 18 he invented the first arithmetical machine. In 1950 Blaise Pascal stoped studying geometry and started to study religion. Three years later he went back to inventing. He then invented the arimetical triangle. On November the 23rd 1654 Pascal had a bad horse accident, which stopped him from studying. Then in 1662 he dies of insomnia and acute dyspepsia.
