The History of Pascals Triangle

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The History of Pascals Triangle
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• France
• China
• Persia

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Blaise Pascal

• Pascals triangle was named after Blaise Pascal
• He was the first westerner to extensively study
  pascals triangle
• He studied and worked on it in 1654
• He lived and studied in France

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Hue Yang

• The chinese used the pascal triangle 500 years
  before blaise pascal did
• It was used In china in 11th Century
• Hue Yang developed it during the song dynasty
• Pascals Triangle is known as the yanghui
  triangle in china

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Omar Khayyam

• The concept was Also developed in Persia during
  the 11th Century
• Omar Khayyam may have gotten idea from china,
  but may have invented it independently

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Bibliography

• http//library.thinkquest.org/23062/pastri2.html
• http//www.csam.montclair.edu/kazimir/history.htm
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• http//www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathem
  aticians/Pascal.html
• http//mathworld.wolfram.com/PascalsTriangle.html

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