Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun blaise_pascal

1 sense of blaise pascal

Sense 1
Pascal, Blaise Pascal -- (French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662))
       INSTANCE OF=> mathematician -- (a person skilled in mathematics)
       INSTANCE OF=> philosopher -- (a specialist in philosophy)