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Pascal, Blaise (1623–62) French mathematician and religious philosopher who in mathematics is noted for his work in geometry, hydrostatics, and probability. Pascal's triangle, the arrangement of the binomial coefficients, was not invented by him, but he did use it in his studies in probability, on which he corresponded with Fermat. He also joined in the work on finding the areas of curved figures, work which was soon to lead to the calculus. Here, his main contribution was to find the area of an arch in the shape of a cycloid.
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