Pascal - Things Named After Blaise Pascal

Things Named After Blaise Pascal

  • Pascal (unit) (Pa), the SI unit of pressure (equivalent to one newton per square meter)
  • Pascal (programming language), a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth between 1968 and 1969
  • Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial distribution
  • Pascal's triangle, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle
  • Pascal's law, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid
  • Pascal (crater), a lunar crater
  • Pascal's theorem, also known as the Hexagrammum Mysticum Theorem
  • Pascal's Wager, a philosophical argument for belief in God

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    “Let us then examine this point, and say, “God is, or he is not.” But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

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    “Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.”
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