Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal

• By Alasdair Millar
• And
• Thomas Crooks

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Contents

• Who is Blaise Pascal?
• What he did
• The Worlds First Calculator
• Pascals Triangle
• Properties of Cycloid

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Who is he ?

• Blaise Pascal was born in 1623 and died in 1662.
• Pascal was French he lived in Clermont and he
  died in Paris.
• He was a famous mathematician.

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What He Did

• Blaise Pascal wrote a paper on conic sections.
  This won him the respect of the mathematicians of
  Paris award.
• At the age of 19 he invented the worlds first
  calculator. Pascal also discovered the properties
  of cycloid. He also contributed to the advance of
  the differential calculus.

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The World First Calculator

• The Calculator is called the pascalina or the
  arithmetique. He began work on his calculator in
  1742 when he was 19 by 1752 Pascal had produced
  50 prototypes and sold a dozen machines.

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Pascals Triangle

• The triangle is made by arranging numbers.
• Each number in the triangle is the sum of the
  pair of numbers directly above it (to the above
  left and above right).

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Pascals Triangle (2)

• Pascal's Triangle can be used to easily work out
  the number of permutations for a given number of
  numbers eg lottery numbers

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Properties of Cycloid

• There is many properties of the cycloid in fact
  there is too many to write down so we will only
  give you a few. Firstly a cycloid is a line
  generated by a point on a circle rolling along a
  straight line.

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