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Blaise Pascal (French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and theologian) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and theologian. He is credited with the following inventions/discoveries.
digital calculator, the Pascaline
Probability, in conjunction with the analysis of gambling problems.
Pascal's triangle (i.e., foundation of the coefficients of the binomial distribution).
cycloid, a curve traced out by a point on the edge of a rolling wheel.
3. Briefness
It takes time to make things more concise - whether it be computer programs or letters - and still convey the desired meanings.
Blaise Pascal (French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher and theologian) was the inventor of the calculator and other inventions, wrote the following (in French), from Wikipedia.
French: Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.
Literal translation: I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter.
This could be translated as follows. I would have written a shorter letter but I did not have time.
4. Pascal programming language
In the 1970's, the Pascal programming language, invented by Niklaus Wirth, was named after Blaise Pascal.
Pascal's wager claims to prove that belief in God is rational goes something like the following.