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Pascal's arithmetical triangle : the story of a mathematical idea / A.W.F. Edwards, ScD, FRS, emeritus professor of biometry, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
- Title
- Pascal's arithmetical triangle : the story of a mathematical idea / A.W.F. Edwards, ScD, FRS, emeritus professor of biometry, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
- Author
- Edwards, A. W. F. (Anthony William Fairbank), 1935-
- Publication
- Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2019.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 202 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- A triangular array of the binomial coefficients.
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published: London : C. Griffin ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987. Reissued: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. A republication of the 2002 version by Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The figurate numbers -- Combinatorial rules -- The combinatorial numbers in India -- The combinatorial numbers in the West -- The binomial numbers -- Pascal's Treatise on the arithmetic triangle -- Pascal's Treatise part II and associated tracts -- The arithmetic triangle in analysis -- The binomial and multinomial distributions -- Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi -- Epilogue -- Pascal and the problem of points -- The gambler's ruin -- Commentary on Ars conjectandi -- Table of binomial coefficients.
- ISBN
- 9780486832791
- 0486832791
- LCCN
- 2018052526
- 99981332259
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries