Age, Biography and Wiki
Birth Day | June 19, 1623 |
Birth Place | Clermont-Ferrand, France |
Age | 396 YEARS OLD |
Died On | Aug 19, 1662 (age 39) |
Birth Sign | Gemini |
Net worth: $4 Million (2024)
About
French Physicist, Inventor, Writer, math theorist, and Christian Philosopher who created a new geometry Problem.
Before Fame
His earliest contributions were in the applied and natural sciences where he focused on fluids and the concepts of pressure and vacuum, drawing from the work that had previously been done by Evangelista Torricelli.
Trivia
He helped Pierre de Fermat in developing the theory of probabilities. He invented the mechanical calculator.
Family Life
His theorem was so advanced that many thought his father, a tax collector who provided the bulk of his son's education, had come up with it. He grew up with two sisters named Gilberte and Jacqueline.
Associated With
He, Torricelli, and Galileo Galilei engaged in an intense intellectual battle with Aristotle's followers over the concept of nature abhorring a vacuum.