Good film about him: Blaise Pascal (1972).
Good quote from his Les Provinciales (1656-57) Letter XII, p. 227:French version reproduced at: www.dicocitations.com/citation/auteurajout35106.php.
All the efforts of violence cannot weaken truth, but only serve to exalt it the more.When force opposes force, the more powerful destroys the less; when words are opposed to words, those which are true and convincing destroy and scatter those which are vain and false; but violence and truth can do nothing against each other.Yet, let no one imagine that things are equal between them; for there is this final difference, that the course of violence is limited by the ordinance of God, who directs its workings to the glory of the truth, which it attacks; whereas truth subsists eternally, and triumphs finally over its enemies, because it is eternal, and powerful, like God Himself.
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Blaise Pascal was a mathematician and natural philosopher whose scientific work covered projective geometry, probability theory and hydrostatics. His correspondence with Pierre de Fermat in 1654 helped establish methods for calculating chances and dividing the stakes of an interrupted game. He also studied atmospheric pressure and developed a mechanical calculating machine.[ref]
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pascal/. Biography, Fermat correspondence, pressure experiments and calculator
The Pascal triangle connects these interests through binomial coefficients: its addition rule counts choices according to whether a specified object is selected. The same coefficients describe the distribution of the number of successes in repeated independent trials with a fixed success probability.
Portrait of Blaise Pascal
. Paul Prieur, portrait; photograph Anna Danielsson / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International., via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher. He made significant contributions to several fields: 1. **Mathematics**: Pascal is known for his work in geometry and probability theory. He is one of the founders of probability theory and his correspondence with Pierre de Fermat laid the groundwork for modern probability calculations.