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| With ideas drawn from Blaise Pascal, and which were to some extent shared with Corb's contemporaries Camus and Bataille, the architect-hero pursued a rocky political path, supporting one promising fascist group after the next in pre-War Paris. You find yourself in this world only through an infinity of accidents," wrote Blaise Pascal, the 17th century French mathematician and philosopher. If such brilliant pioneers as Blaise Pascal, Leibnitz and Charles Babbage (in the 19th century) had the power of today's technology, the ``crisis'' could have arisen much earlier. |
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Blaise Pascal - French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)