childhood


 * 1) He had two sisters, Jacqueline and Gilberte[[image:dmumma/RKAOCA5X8WGJCA9631W1CAMD8HROCA0SGR4XCAJ45Q6MCANP9MBZCAVIXVR7CAWAJOJVCALYSIDACAE18CGPCA2C0XORCAFAXM43CAOUIYPLCAWGFP3RCAQZBMDRCACMKP8LCA9IWP9JCARUQ7V8CAMQOSDQ.jpg width="221" height="165"]]
 * 2) At the age of sixteen, Pascal wrote a short treatise on the “Mystic Hexagram”, based on the work of Desargues on conic sections.
 * 3) This short treatise later led to the famous Pascal’s theorem, which states that a hexagon inscribed in a circle (or conic) makes three intersection points of opposite sides on a line.
 * 4) at the age of fourteen he constructed the first arithmatical machine