Assertion: pascal | /r/CapableOf | write significant treatise
Facets:
value: on the subject of projective geometry
type: OTHER
value: at the age of sixteen
type: TEMPORAL
value: at the age of 16
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science.
text: At the age of sixteen, he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry, known as Pascal’s Theorem, which states that, if a hexagon is inscribed in a circle, then the three intersection points of opposite sides lie on a single line, called the Pascal line.