Blaise Pascal

June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

He was born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France

Blaise made the Pascal Calculator which made him the first inventors for the modern day mechanical calculator

Blaise's father was a tax collector, led him to create the Pascaline

Created Pascaline to help father with taxes

famous for creating a device that could do both addition and subtraction

invented Mechanical Calculator (Arithmetic Machine)

impact affected mathematics and computing for decades to come

Refrences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal