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en-wikipedia-org-2866		Blaise Pascal - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10718	1651	66	Blaise Pascal (/pæˈskæl/ pask-AL, also UK: /-ˈskɑːl, ˈpæskəl, -skæl/ -AHL, PASK-əl, -al, US: /pɑːˈskɑːl/ pah-SKAHL;[3][4][5][6][7] French: [blɛz paskal]; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian. In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism.[10] Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. John Ross writes, "Probability theory and the discoveries following it changed the way we regard uncertainty, risk, decision-making, and an individual's and society's ability to influence the course of future events."[19] However, Pascal and Fermat, though doing important early work in probability theory, did not develop the field very far. Pascal's use of humor, mockery, and vicious satire in his arguments made the letters ripe for public consumption, and influenced the prose of later French writers like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2866.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2866.txt