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Last time, we met Pierre de Fermat, the amateur genius who invented number theory in his spare

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time. We saw his famous last theorem and his correspondence with Pascal that founded

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probability theory. Welcome back to Men of Mathematics. Today we meet Fermat's correspondent,

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Blais Pascal, who lived more intensely in 39 years than most people live in 90.

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mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, theologian, Pascal was all of these, sometimes all at once.