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Blaise Pascal

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher1623 to 1662

Wikidata names Marin Mersenne as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Marin Mersenne

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known as: mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, writer, moralist, statistician
fields: probability theory, mathematics, literature, physics
member of: Académie Le Pailleur
notable works: Pensées, Lettres provinciales, Traité des Sinus du Quart de Cercle, Récit de la grande expérience de l'équilibre des liqueurs 1648, Écrits sur la grâce, Traité du triangle arithmétique, New experiments with the vacuum, Pascal's pyramid, Pascal's Wager, triangle of Pascal, Pascal's law, Pascal's rule, Pascal's theorem, Pascal's calculator
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stated by WikidataWikidataQ1290
stated by WikidataVIAF29538862
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stated by WikidataIdRef027059073
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@misc{academicancestry_Q1290,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Blaise Pascal: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1290},
  note = {read on 2026-10-22}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 22). Blaise Pascal: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-22]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q1290