We keep calling this pattern “Pascal’s triangle,” but who is that? And was he actually the first person to study this pattern? Well, Pascal was a French mathematician who lived in the 17th ...

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 ...

Plus, it’s related to a famous and fascinating pattern you may have heard of called Pascal’s triangle. What exactly is that? And where does it come from?