Blaise Pascal

He may have lived a very long time ago, but Blaise Pascal made a great impression on the world during his lifetime. In addition to being a French mathematician, scientist and philosopher, he’s the one that we can say “thank you” to for creating real money roulette. Blaise Pascal used his brilliance in many important ways, and, along the way, created the real money roulette game that we love today! Born in 1623, this man was certainly ahead of his time with his real money roulette invention, and with so many other things!

More about Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont, France. He was the only son in the family, and he was home schooled by his father. Although his father did not allow him to learn math, he learned in secretly and impressed his father a great deal with his brilliance when he was found out. At the age of 16, Blaise Pascal presented a paper about geometry that impressed the best mathematical minds in Paris at the time.

Blaise Pascal and His Inventions

Blaise Pascal continued to study math all the way into adulthood and he certainly made many contributions with his learning. He created many mathematical formulas and ideas that are stilled used in math classes today. His most famous one is Pascal’s Traingle which illustrates the expansion of binomial coefficients. He also invented the theory of probabilities. His friend, the Chevalier de Mere, who loved to gamble, asked him what to do if two friends were playing a game that they had to quit before they finished. If one was winning, but hadn’t yet won, how should they divide up the money? Blaise Pascal, in typical Blaise Pascal fashion, devised a formula to show the probability of each one winning. This is the essence of probability theory that we rely on today

Blaise Pascal And Real Money Roulette

So, how does all of this relate to real money roulette? Blaise Pascal was trying to create a perpetual motion machine, and he ended up inventing roulette. The real money roulette wheel is all attributed to him! Fortunately, he didn’t develop his perpetual motion machine, but we do have the great game of real money roulette because of his attempts to create this idea. In 1662, Blaise Pascal died at the very young age of 39. Even though he was so young, he managed in his short life to invent a great deal of things – and to give us real money roulette! A short, but very interesting life lived!