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Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work...

11/1/2019

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, and Managing Director at Thiel Capital; Peter Thiel's investment firm. He also writes on investments, capitalism, science, and mathematics. In Glitch in...

8/24/2019

René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France, he spent about 20 years (1629–1649) of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a...

4/30/2019