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The pattern of numbers shown in the picture above has been studied for over 2,000 years by people all over the world. They are invaluable in the mathematical field of combinatorics, which is a fancy way of saying counting things. They are called the binomial coefficients because they are the numbers multiplying terms of the expansion of the binomial (a+b)ⁿ, which is a cornerstone of the study of algebra. The patterns and inter-relationships among the numbers fascinated people in ancient times, and are still essential today to the study of fields as modern as computer science.

This website has as its goal to be as comprehensive a resource as possible for anyone wanting to study any aspect of Pascal's Triangle. Much of the information here can be understood by students in high school, and can be a good resource for their teachers as well, but we also want to be of service to graduate students and working mathematicians looking for information about more esoteric aspects of this much studied set of numbers.

Major text sources for this website

Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Source for:
A=B (available in print and online)	Petkovšek, Wilf, Zeilberger	A.K. Peters	Algorithms
Concrete Mathematics	Graham, Knuth, Patashnik	Addison Wesley	Proofs
Enumerative Combinatorics	Richard Stanley	Cambridge University Press	Proofs
Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle	A.W.F. Edwards	Johns Hopkins Univ. Press	History
Proofs That Really Count	Benjamin and Quinn	Math. Assoc. of America	Proofs
Proofs Without Words	Roger B. Nelsen	Math. Assoc. of America	Proofs

We thank the authors and publishers of these works, most especially Johns Hopkins University Press and the MAA for kindly allowing us to reproduce artwork from the books by Edwards and Nelsen, respectively. All the books were also invaluable in our never-ending search for identities.

Other cool websites

Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences	Mathforum: Pascal's Triangle	Wolfram's World of Mathematics
MacTutor History of Mathematics	Pascal's original Treatise online	Math Words
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