The Mathematician Who Sewed a Secret Into His Coat
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant minds in Europe, inventor of the mechanical calculator, pioneer of...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 2:1-16.
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant minds in Europe, inventor of the mechanical calculator, pioneer of probability theory — had an experience that no equation could contain. For two hours, from roughly 10:30 p. m. until half past midnight, Pascal encountered the living God. He could barely find words. He scrawled them on a scrap of parchment in fragments: "Fire.…
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