... . This idea was good, but it didn't work, because he would weave too much from side to side and eventually would fall over. It is told that in 1810, at the age of nineteen, Babbage went to Cambridge. There, Babbage studied grammar, literature, and many other important lessons, but he found his obsession to be mathematics, and he read many books on ... the subject. Babbage's teachers frustrated him greatly though, because none of them could ever answer his questions. He was very good at mathematics, especially calculus, and he soon figured out that ... all. They all wanted to, as Babbag...

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... of sixteen he wrote an essay on conic sections and at age eighteen, he constructed the first arithmetical machine. When he was nineteen years old, Pascal began to create a machine that would be similar to an everyday calculator to help his father with his accounting job. After that Pascal worked on many mathematical problems, including how gases and fluids behave. ... In 1654, when Pascal was 31 he created "Pascal's Triangle-. This is a math equation that shows the chances of winning in gambling, which today ... has been important in the study of statistics and even modern day physics,...

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... , which enabled him to help his father with scientific gatherings. By the time he was seventeen he wrote an essay on conic sections, which is, a work in projective geometry that contained a theorem on conic sections that was named after him. At the age of eighteen Pascal invented the adding machine, which is now known as the calculator. Pascal's main purpose was to help his father out ... constructed by adding to adjacent numbers in a line and putting their sums between them. Pascal was one of the most well-known mathematicians and physicist of his time and was a known writer of Christia...

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