On the 400th anniversary of the birth of Blaise Pascal, the Vatican Library displayed first editions of some of his most famous works. Pope Francis published an apostolic letter earlier this week ...

Chief of staff to the rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris Pope Francis has published an apostolic letter paying tribute to Blaise Pascal, to mark the 400th anniversary of the philosopher's ...

Readers of the Italian newspaper La Repub­blica have been following a series of freewheeling conversations between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s founder and a celebrated atheist now ...

There is a famous phrase from Blaise Pascal’s Pensées that often gets taken out of context and used to promote sentimentalism and the supremacy of the emotions, but Pascal’s original point is one of ...

For the past few years, professor Sean D. Kelly, chair of Harvard’s Philosophy Department, has been searching for a copy of Blaise Pascal’s death mask that just might be lost in Harvard’s collection.

French mathematician, physicist, and inventor Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623. Pascal was home-schooled by his father, who believed he should not study math until he was 15, but he is said to ...

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Blaise Pascal was an all-around intellectual bad-ass. In his rather short life — Pascal succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 39 — he managed to ...

In 1654, two giants of mathematics, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, began to exchange letters about games of chance. This correspondence resulted in Pascal writing Traité du triangle arithmétique, ...