Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blaise Pascal's ideas have led to some of the world's most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images In an apostolic ...

Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.” Pascal (1623-1662) was a French scientist ...

On Aug. 19, 1662, French philosopher, mathematician and apologist Blaise Pascal died at just 39 years old. Pascal, despite his shortened life, is renowned for pioneering work in geometry, physics and ...

Blaise Pascal, the French philosopher, was born four hundred years ago, on June 19, 1623. He is among those modernist thinkers who are difficult even to categorize. At the age of 16, Blaise published ...

In 1654, the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal explained the logic of believing in God, expressed as a wager. The cost to a believer of wrongly placing faith is trivial, but the cost ...

(The Conversation) — Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today. In fact, Pascal’s influence in ...