Pascal
Encyclopedia
- This is a disambiguation page. For other uses, see Pascal (given name) or Pascal (surname)Pascal (surname)Pascal is a French and an Italian surname.-Origin of the surname:Pascal is a patronymic surname that derives from the personal given name Pascal, from Latin Paschalis...
Pascal or PASCAL may refer to:
People
- Pascal (given name), a French given name
- Pascal (surname)Pascal (surname)Pascal is a French and an Italian surname.-Origin of the surname:Pascal is a patronymic surname that derives from the personal given name Pascal, from Latin Paschalis...
, a French and Italian surname - Adam PascalAdam PascalAdam Pascal is an American actor and singer known for his performance as Roger Davis in the original cast of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent on Broadway 1996, the 2005 movie version of the musical, and the Broadway Tour of Rent in 2009...
(born 1970), American actor and singer, best known for his role of Roger Davis in the Broadway musical RentRent (musical)Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème... - Blaise PascalBlaise PascalBlaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...
(1623–1662), French mathematician and philosopher - Cleo PaskalCleo PaskalCleo Paskal is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, , Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India and Adjunct Professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Also she was a consultant for the U.S...
, environmental scientist - Pascal (musician)Pascal (musician)Pascal is the stage name of drum and bass DJ and producer Pascal Redpath.Like many other producers in the genre, Pascal's involvement in drum and bass came through a love of hip hop...
, stage name of drum and bass musician Pascal Redpath. - Pascal EtcheberPascal EtcheberPascal Etcheber is a French author and philosopher. He co-edited “Managing Sensitive Projects” published by Macmillan in the UK and Routledge in the US in 1998....
, the author of "Vagabond Earth"
Things named after Blaise Pascal
- Pascal (unit)Pascal (unit)The pascal is the SI derived unit of pressure, internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and tensile strength, named after the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and philosopher Blaise Pascal. It is a measure of force per unit area, defined as one newton per square metre...
(Pa), the SI unit of pressure (equivalent to one newton per square meter) - Pascal (programming language)Pascal (programming language)Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...
, a programming language developed by Niklaus WirthNiklaus WirthNiklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.-Biography:Wirth...
between 1968 and 1969 - Pascal distribution, a special case of the negative binomial distributionNegative binomial distributionIn probability theory and statistics, the negative binomial distribution is a discrete probability distribution of the number of successes in a sequence of Bernoulli trials before a specified number of failures occur...
- Pascal's trianglePascal's triangleIn mathematics, Pascal's triangle is a triangular array of the binomial coefficients in a triangle. It is named after the French mathematician, Blaise Pascal...
, a geometric arrangement of the binomial coefficients in a triangle - Pascal's lawPascal's lawIn the physical sciences, Pascal's law or the Principle of transmission of fluid-pressure states that "pressure exerted anywhere in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted equally in all directions throughout the fluid such that the pressure ratio remains the same." The law was established...
, a physics principle relating pressure at various points in an incompressible fluid - Pascal (crater)Pascal (crater)Pascal is a lunar crater that lies near the northern limb of the Moon, on the western side of the pole. It is located to the north of the eroded crater Desargues, and just east of Brianchon. Pascal can be located by finding the crater Carpenter and then following the surface to the northwest...
, a lunar crater - Pascal's theoremPascal's theoremIn projective geometry, Pascal's theorem states that if an arbitrary hexagon is inscribed in any conic section, and pairs of opposite sides are extended until they meet, the three intersection points will lie on a straight line, the Pascal line of that configuration.- Related results :This theorem...
, also known as the Hexagrammum Mysticum Theorem - Pascal's WagerPascal's WagerPascal's Wager, also known as Pascal's Gambit, is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist Blaise Pascal that even if the existence of God could not be determined through reason, a rational person should wager as though God exists, because one living life...
, a philosophical argument for belief in God
Fictional characters
- Pascal, the main character in the film The Red BalloonThe Red BalloonThe Red Balloon is a 1956 fantasy short film directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse.The thirty-four minute short, which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient, mute, red balloon, was filmed in the Ménilmontant neighborhood of Paris, France.It won numerous awards,...
- Pascal, a character in the television series Beauty and the Beast (TV series)Beauty and the Beast (TV series)Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent , a mythic, noble man-beast, and his Catherine , a savvy assistant District attorney in New York; and a...
, portrayed by Armin Shimerman - Pascal, a character in the novel Felidae (novel)Felidae (novel)Felidae is a 1989 novel by German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany...
and in the movie Felidae (film)Felidae (film)Felidae is a 1994 German animated mystery directed by Michael Schaack, written by Martin Kluger, Stefaan Schieder and Akif Pirinçci based on the novel Felidae, produced by Trickompany, and starring Ulrich Tukur, Mario Adorf and Klaus Maria Brandauer. The famed nightmare sequence was directed,...
, voiced by Klaus Maria Brandauer - Pascal (Nintendo), a character from the Nintendo video game series Animal Crossing
- Pascal Curious, a character from The Sims 2The Sims 2The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. It was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port to Apple Mac OS X...
- Pascal, a character from Tales of GracesTales of Gracesis the 12th mothership title and the newest generation in the Tales series for the Wii and PlayStation 3. It follows lead character Asbel Lhant, who desires to obtain greater strength. Its characteristic genre name is . The opening theme is by BoA...
- Mattia Pascal, the main character in The Late Mattia PascalThe Late Mattia PascalThe Late Mattia Pascal is a novel by Luigi Pirandello. The novel, among Pirandello's most successful, was written in 1904.-Plot summary:...
, novel by Luigi PirandelloLuigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written... - Pascal, The main character of 40 acres and maybe a mule
- Pascal: the name of a pet chameleon to the main heroine Rapunzel in Disney's Tangled (2010)
Other uses
- PASCAL (database), a scientific bibliographic database maintained by INIST
- Pascal blancPascal BlancPascal blanc is a white French wine grape variety grown in the Provence region of southern France. While once more widely planted, this ancient Provençal variety is nearly extinct with only a few plantings left in the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée region of Cassis and some hectares used for...
, a French white wine grape - Pascal, an alias of Flip & FillFlip & FillFlip & Fill are a Manchester, England based electronic dance music duo, consisting of the producers/remixers, DJs Graham Turner and Mark Hall. They are signed to the All Around The World record label.-Career:...
, dance music producers Graham Turner and Mark Hall - Pascal PhotocoagulatorPascal PhotocoagulatorThe PASCAL Photocoagulator is an integrated semi-automatic pattern scan laser photocoagulation system designed to treat ocular diseases using a single shot or predetermined pattern array. The device is for ophthalmologists, particularly those that focus in vitreo-retinal surgery, a type of eye...
, a pattern scan laser used in ophthalmology - J. Pascal's Furniture and Hardware, a Montreal hardware and furniture store trading under the name “Pascal”
- Pascal CollegePascal CollegePascal College is a school in Zaandam, the Netherlands, which offers havo and vwo . The school's Christian identity is based on Reformatory ideas, formulated in the 20th century by orthodox protestants. The school was founded in 1957....
, school in Zaandam, the Netherlands, for pre-university secondary education - Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning (PASCAL), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union, which supports collaboration between experts in Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization
- Pascal (programming language)Pascal (programming language)Pascal is an influential imperative and procedural programming language, designed in 1968/9 and published in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a small and efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.A derivative known as Object Pascal...
Programming language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring
See also
- Paschal (disambiguation)
- Pasqual (disambiguation)
- Pascual (disambiguation)
- Pasquale (disambiguation)
- PAS/CALPAS/CALPAS/CAL are an indie pop band from Detroit, Michigan who formed in 2002 and released three EPs and two 12" inch split singles over the next four years...
, a pop band from Detroit, Michigan - Royal Malaysian Navy PASKAL, special forces unit