Aug 19, 1913
Adolphe Célestin Pégoud, a French aviator, became the world’s
first man to make a parachute jump from an airplane.
Today is
World Photography Day
The day celebrates the advent of photography in 1837 in France, where two Frenchmen, Joseph Nicephore Niepcce and Louis Daguerre, created the
first photography process.
Aug 19, 1662
Blaise Pascal, the
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic
theologian, died at age 39.
Everyone who has been to middle school must have heard of this
name.
Do you know these terms named after him?
Pascal's wager 帕斯卡赌注
Pascal's triangle 帕斯卡三角形（杨辉三角形）
Pascal's law 帕斯卡定律
Pascal's theorem 帕斯卡定理
Pascal's calculator 帕斯卡计算器
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Famous works:
The Pensées (English: Thoughts)
Human Happiness
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.” - Blaise Pascal, Pensées