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Pascal's legacy
John F Ross. EMBO Rep. 2004 Oct.
Abstract
The musings of a Belgian monk 300 years ago on the consequences of believing in God, or not, have influenced our Western life probably more than any other scientific or technological invention
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An engraving of Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), Belgian mathematician and monk, after a seventeenth-century French painting. © Stefano Bianchetti/CORBIS
Pascal's arithmetical triangle for the calculation of probabilities
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