an since the
time of Archimedes. In the next year, Blaise had to suspend his association with the
geometrians in the Mersenne's Circle because he and his sisters had to move to Rouen
where his father was appointed as a royal tax official in Upper Normandy. Blaise Pascal
was a genius with many talents. He was known in his day and ours as a mathematician
and physicist, and was also a spiritual writer. In this paper, we will focus on his
Projective Geometry. At the age of sixteen, he was the one of the few
mathematicians who admired Desargues' projective geometry at the time; others were
too busy with Descartes' analytic geometry. He worked on conic sections and produced
important theorems in projective geometry. Pascal wrote a brief Essay on Conic
Sections which contains a number of projective geometry theorems including his mystic
hexagon theorem. He presented it to one of Mersenne's meetings in 1639 and published
it in Rouen in February of 1640. In The Generation of Conic Sections (mostly completed
by March 1648 but worked on again in 1653 and 1654) Pascal considered conics
generated by central projection of a circle. This was meant to be the first part of a treatise
on conics which Pascal never completed. The work is now lost but notes were taken from
it and it is through these notes that a fairly complete picture of the work is now possible.
Pascal's Triangle. Although Pascal was not the first to study Pascal's triangle
(Chinese and Islamic mathematicians used it more than 500 years before),his work on the
topic in Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle in 1653 was famous for being the first
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