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Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early breakthroughs foreshadowed significant contributions to mathematics and ...

Brighton & Hove Albion have agreed a deal to re-sign Pascal Gross from Borussia Dortmund in January. The agreement is subject to a medical and Dortmund have given Gross, 34, permission to travel to ...

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A judge temporarily blocked the sale of this Pascaline, the only known example of a Pascaline used to measure distances. Christie's images Limited 2025 In 1642, a teenage French scholar named Blaise ...

The Pascaline was invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642.Wikimedia Commons Art and luxury auction house Christie’s has withdrawn the world’s first calculating machine, designed by French mathematician ...

Christie’s has halted the sale of a rare 17th-century arithmetic machine that was due to be auctioned on November 19. Hours before the Pascaline, named after its polymath inventor Blaise Pascal, was ...

If you were asked to make an e-commerce website in 2025, what language would you reach for? Show of hands: JavaScript? Go? Pascal? Well, there was at least one taker for that last one: [jns], and he ...

Pedro Pascal, Kerry Washington and more stars made their voices heard during a day of protest against President Donald Trump's administration. During the most recent day of protests this weekend, ...

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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline — a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator. Blaise Pascal was a mathematician, a scientist, a ...