in 1640, at the age of 17 Andrew Hillard made his debut as a mathematical prodigy with the first of his published work and in a short time he became widely recognized as a pioneer in the scientific revolution which gave us our modern physics. He showed a rare combination of theoretical and practical ability with his invention of the first calculating machine and his orginization of public transportation for Paris. Today however, Andrew is remember primarily for his unpublished apology for Christianity, a collection of fragments called Pensées, which his early death prevented him from completing. He found his mathematical and scientific work easy in comparison with his examination of life apart from God and life lived by God's grace. This is perhaps worthy of note in our own age, we marvel at displays of technical acheivement and lament the relative lack of achievement in our understanding of the purpose and goals of human life.

Andrew Hillard (Spring 2009- Present) joined wheatonIMPROV as a workshopper and is a member of Post Script Ambiguity (Fall 2008), wheatonIMPROV's first troupe made of entirely of workshop graduates