Come here, my angels! I have to tell you something extremely important!

Yes, Sir!

What happened?

I see it is the perfect timing for sending to

Earth someone new and special. Let's prepare him.

Let's add some kindness , patience and honesty. This person will be warm-hearted and hard-working. And now, the most important, let's add intelligence.

Oh, my Lord! You've dropped way tooooo much intelligence.

Yes, I see. But there is no way to fix this . We leave it this way and see what happens. Now, let's send him on Earth.

Alright. I'll do it.

This kid was sent to Earth in a family from France, on 19th of June 1623. He was named Blaise Pascal. Later on, that intelligence that God had dropped started to reveal itself.

 He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen.

Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, which is in France's Auvergne region. He lost his mother, Antoinette Begon, at the age of three.His father, Étienne Pascal(1588–1651), who also had an interest in science and mathematics, was a local judge and member of the "Noblesse de Robe". Pascal had two sisters, the younger Jacqueline and the elder Gilberte.

In 1631, five years after the death of his wife, Étienne Pascal moved with his children to Paris. The newly arrived family soon hired Louise Delfault, a maid who eventually became an instrumental member of the family. Étienne, who never remarried, decided that he alone would educate his children, for they all showed extraordinary intellectual ability, particularly his son Blaise. The young Pascal showed an amazing aptitude for mathematics and science.

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and 50 prototypes, he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) over the following 10 years, establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.