Blaise Pascal was many things, a physicist, an inventor, a writer and even a Christian philosopher, but the thing he is most remembered for is a mathematician. Pascal was a very successful man, but to fully understand how his success came about, we have to go back to his beginnings. Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France on June 19, 1623, and died on August 19, 1662 in Paris. , France. He was the third child and only child of Etienne and Antoinette Pascal. He was extremely close to his two older sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. Jacqueline became a nun after the death of their father at the Port Royal convent. His treatise on the methods and principles of pedagogy, used in convent schools, made an enormous contribution to the philosophy of education. Pascal's other sister, Gilberte, was an author. She wrote the book La Vie de Pascal. Pascal's mother, Antoinette, died when he was only three years old. No one really knows how or what she died of. The family remained in Clermont-Ferrand, France, for another five years after the death of their mother, Antoinette. Then, in 1631, Pascal and his family moved to Paris, France. Here, Etienne decided that he would educate Blaise himself. Part of his plan to achieve this was to create his own unorthodox program. Ironically, in doing so, he omitted mathematics from the beginning of the program. Etienne feared that Blaise would become so fascinated by geometry that he could no longer concentrate on other, more classical subjects. The beginning of his training in Paris was more oriented towards languages, mainly Latin and Greek. Pascal explains that: This quote explains how Pascal felt about learning new languages ​​and the level of difficulty of doing so. Unfortunately, his plan backfires...... middle of paper ......the rod relies on an extended version of the metric system, in order to be able to calculate the pressure that exists at a location and/or at a given moment. In 1972, Nicklaus Wirth insisted on naming the new computer language he had just invented Pascal. This was Wirth's way of remembering and commemorating Pascal and his invention of the Pascaline. The Pascaline was one of the first forms of the modern computer. The merit of having built the foundations of probability theory also goes to Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal was a very important person in the history not only of mathematics, but also of physics and computer science. He was an extremely intelligent man and should be recognized for all the theories he discovered and the many inventions he had. Blaise Pascal certainly played a huge role in the history of education and brought our knowledge to where it is today..