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I first encountered Pascal’s triangle on a worksheet my older brother brought home from school when I was in eighth grade. At the time, I was taking geometry (with a teacher who had a cool pair of ...
Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Now that we’ve learned how to draw Pascal’s famous ...
Mathematics Magazine presents articles and notes on undergraduate mathematical topics in a lively expository style that appeals to students and faculty throughout the undergraduate years. The journal ...
Zalman Usiskin, Perfect Square Patterns in the Pascal Triangle, Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Sep., 1973), pp. 203-208 ...
Blaise Pascal was a teen mathematical genius who built a mechanical calculator before most kids finish schoolwork on their ...
Taking apart poetry with mathematics? Sacrilege! Or is it? Genetics professor Steve Jones shows how the two ancient disciplines can get along in The Telegraph. Certainly poetry uses patterns in ...