About the Book: Blaise Pascal by Graham Tomlin is an engaging biography of one of seventeenth-century Europe’s most remarkable thinkers. Though he lived only 39 years, Pascal made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics, geometry and probability, developed an early calculating machine and helped pioneer urban public transport. He was also a profound Christian thinker whose ideas on faith, scepticism, politics, self-love and mortality remain relevant today. Combining intellectual history with a vivid portrait of Pascal’s extraordinary life, Tomlin explores the lasting influence of a polymath whose scientific achievements and philosophical thought helped shape the modern world.