Blaise Pascal

n. (1623-1662) French philosopher and mathematician, founder of modern probability theory

Blaise Pascal , (June 19 1623 –  August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method.
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Noun
1. French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
(synonym) Pascal
(hypernym) mathematician

n. Pascal, (1623-62) French philosopher and mathematician, founder of modern probability theory