This snippet of Blaise's life or la vie de Blaise (all corrections to my French are welcome) I learnt from
'A Slice of Pi' by Liz Stracham. Apparently Blaise's father wanted him to learn Latin and Greek before he tackled maths, but one day he found him writing with coal on a garden wall, writing out a proof that
all angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. So after that, the father let his son study maths and he went on to great heights in mathematics including lots of work on the Theory of Probability.
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