There are
several literary references to the Binomial Theorem. Here is a
brief sample which we would be happy to expand upon if any of our
gentle readers know others we should add. Send us an e-mail
and we will include your suggestions.
"About Binomial Theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news (lot of news,
lot of news... A-ha!)
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!" I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
"At the age of twenty-one he [Prof. Moriarity] wrote a treatise upon
the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. On the
strength of it, he won the Mathematical Chair at one of our smaller
universities." The Adventure of the Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle
Foreman: Break it up, break it up. (he hits them with his pickaxe) I'm
sick of all this bloody fighting. If it's not the bloody Treaty of
Utrecht, it's the bloody Binomial Theorem. This isn't the senior common
room at All Souls, it's a bloody coal face. Monty Python's Flying Circus (a sketch about well-educated but
violently argumentative Welsh coal miners)
