BLAISE PASCALE AND PASCAL’S TRIANGLE
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a Frenchmathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher
Numbers used in Pascal’s triangle was discovered by manymathematicians before him but with different applications
The earliest explicit depictions of the triangle occur in the 10thcentury in commentaries on the Chandas Shastra (India)
In Iran, it is known as "Khayyam triangle” (1048-1131); , finding nthroots of a binomial expansion (section 6.6) In China, it is known as “Yang Hui'striangle"(1238-1298) In Italy, they call it "Tartaglia's triangle", used insolving cubic polynomials(1500-1577)