Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a ...

Blaise Pascal independently rediscovered classical geometry at the age of 12 despite a ban on formal maths studies. His early ...

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 ...

Anyone who’s taken classes in geometry, algebra, trigonometry or other advanced math forms has certainly encountered the graphing calculator before. These multi-function devices make incredibly ...

WHAT do you use when studying mathematics and you need to solve an arithmetic equation? You take help of a calculator that assists you in solving numeric questions within seconds. A calculator has ...

The Aritmometer was the first device capable of performing mathematical calculations automatically. It was invented in 1623 by the German mathematician and philosopher Wilhelm Schickard. However, ...