Lycée Blaise Pascal (Abidjan)
''Lycée Blaise Pascal'' or ''Lycée Français Blaise Pascal'' (LFBP) may refer to: * ''Lycée Français Blaise Pascal Abidjan'' - Abidjan, Ivory Coast * ''Lycée Blaise Pascal de Libreville'' - Libreville, Gabon * The high school division of the ''École Pascal'' (:fr:École Pascal, FR) in Paris * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Orsay) * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Charbonnières-les-Bains) * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Châteauroux) * ''Lycée Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand), Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (:fr:Lycée Blaise-Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand), FR) (Clermont-Ferrand) * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Colmar) * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Brie-Comte-Robert) * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Rouen) * ''Lycée Blaise-Pascal'' (Longuenesse) {{disambiguation ...
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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal ( , , ; ; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic Church, Catholic writer. 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. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social sciences, social science. In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator. Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial results. He made important contribu ...
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