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Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, oil painting by an anonymous artist, c. 1650; in the Musée Carnavalet–Histoire de Paris, Paris. Pascal laid the foundation for probability theory.
Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.1