1. French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662); [syn: Pascal, Blaise Pascal]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Blaise Pascal
n 1: French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist;
invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to
the theory of probability (1623-1662) [syn: Pascal,
Blaise Pascal]