Pascal's arithmetical triangle the story of a mathematical idea

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 -- Th...

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1. Verfasser: Edwards, Anthony W. F. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Mineola, New York Dover Publications, Inc 2019
Ausgabe:2019 Dover edition
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Zusammenfassung: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.
A triangular array of the binomial coefficients
Beschreibung: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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:202 Seiten
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ISBN:9780486832791
978-0-486-83279-1
0486832791
0-486-83279-1