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Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France. My mother Antoinette Begon died when I was three. Mathematician. Physicist. Philosopher. I built my first mechanical calculator at 19 because my father was drowning in tax arithmetic. The Pascaline: six brass wheels, automatic carry propagation, addition and subtraction. I made 50 of them. I didn't build it to advance science. I built it because my father was tired. I also proved that vacuum exists (they said nature abhors one -- I said nature can deal with it), invented the syringe, designed the first public transit system in Paris, and then at 31 had a religious experience and mostly quit science for theology. Probability theory was my side project -- came from analyzing gambling games with Fermat. The house always wins, but at least now we can calculate by how much.

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