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Here is a quote to start this newsgroup off:

from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics", by
W. W. Rouse Ball, fourth edition published in 1908.

PASCAL.  Among the contemporaries of Descartes none displayed
greater natural genius than Pascal, but his mathematical reputation
rests more on what he might have done than on what he actually
effected, as during a considerable part of his life he deemed it
his duty to devote his whole time to religious exercises.

(brought to my attention by Tom Crawford)

	Phil Ngai	...ucbvax!amd70!pn