At sixteen, he wrote paper on geometry field. He won the respect of the French mathematical community. At age of nineteen, in order to assist his father, a tax administrator, he invented the first calculating machine. Besides co-founding probability theory with Pierre de Fermat, he contributed to the advance calculus, and his studies in physics culminated with a law on the effects of pressure on fluids that bears his name.
At age thirty-one, after a close escape from death in a carriage accident, Pascal turned his back on mathematics and the sciences and become more religious. Pascal even turned so far from the sciences. Even so, he still occasionally succumbed to its lure. Once, in order to distract himself from pain, he concentrated on a geometry problem. He died later on the same year, at age of thirty-nine.
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