Wow your friends and knock out your teachers with your insider knowledge about this titan of maths and science! How could you NOT want to find out about the Frenchman Blaise Pascal, born 400 years ago but whose name is known to brainboxes everywhere? In his short 39 years, he thought up so many awesome ideas and worked out a lot of genius science stuff plus he wrote interesting books in faultless French prose. I mean, the guy is a sensation!