Not only James Bond is fascinated by roulette, but perhaps the man who did the most to make it perceived as an exclusive and somewhat cool pastime. But if we really want to find the creator and popularizer of roulette, we should look back to the 17th century and follow the path of today's game developers.

Roulette is a French expression meaning "little wheel." The inventor of roulette is considered to be a certain mathematician named Blaise Pascal . Pascal lived in the 17th century and already at a very young age was considered a great talent, which probably also explains his not by his age developed attitude. At the age of seven he went to Paris, which would be his hometown for most of his life. He devoted himself not only to mathematics, but also to physics and philosophy. Socialized in other intellectual and scientific circles that nurtured ideas that became groundbreaking.

A gifted young man.

As a teenager, he wrote his first paper on mathematics and also managed to manufacture the very first calculator. But there would have been more, such as deriving the famous (at least to mathematicians) theorem about the inscribed hexagon, but he solved even more problems, some of which he built himself and others that many people have come up with. In physics, he conducted experiments with a mercury thermometer, which also led to the naming of a unit of pressure measurement after Pascal. In fact, the programming language Pascal is named after this 17th century thinker. The tape measure was also included in the corner, in a much more primitive version than it is today.

Rumor and Death

However, due to an accident, he found himself in a state of brooding and increasingly isolated in his old days, which also led to a series of essays on theology, philosophy and morality, where he was particularly harsh - according to Pascal - bad Jesuit morality.

Pascal died in Paris on August 19, 1662, but roulette as a game lived on, and in the 19th century two brothers named François and Louis Blanc developed the board game into the form we play today. So, the European version with a zero as opposed to the American version, where there is a double zero, which reduces the chances of an individual player. Unfortunately, roulette was banned in France, so the brothers took it to Bad Homburg and Monte Carlo.

Moral Pascal.

It is probably doubtful that the morally obsessed thinker Pascal would have imagined his gambling in the exclusive casinos of Monte Carlo, where the beautiful and wealthy are neighbors with criminals and fortune seekers? Perhaps he would have been more accepting of online casinos because they appealed to the general population and incorporated opposition to gambling addiction into their rules. Blaise Pascal was no James Bond, but the mathematical challenges of roulette challenged him, as it does many others in today's world, where information is abundant both online and in book form.

Today's heroes

Today, Swedish platforms like svenskroulette promote roulette as a central part of the digital casino world, which we can find on the web site svenskroulette.com, a platform where you connect the results of the best and smartest game developers with the demand from the public. Because perhaps the most interesting similarity between Pascal and today's game developers is that some of the most astute and prominent game developers were also fascinated by roulette. Not least of all the now world-famous game development company Evolution Gaming, which has taken online roulette to a new level, where you can experience at home at the computer the same sensation as sitting in a real casino, but much better. As the camera angles and various effects, such as spinning the wheel in slow motion, make the experience even more tangible. Read about modern entertainment on this resource. 

Inspiration Through the Ages.

Could it be that these developers were inspired by Pascal, since the programming language was named after him? Probably not. But it is undoubtedly the innovators and creators of the same spirit and talents that should be talked about more than all those athletes mentioned on the conveyor belt. Because just as for an athlete it is the challenge of overcoming problems, breaking boundaries, and accomplishing the impossible, it is not the possibility of big wins at roulette that fascinated Pascal and game developers today, it is this mathematical challenge or how to program experiences that transcend the experience of being present in real life. Eternal heroes taking on eternal challenges.

In this way, the little wheel continues to fascinate and attract creative geniuses who want to either outsmart or develop this fundamentally uncomplicated device.