Pascal's triangle, a simple yet complex mathematical construct, hides some surprising properties related to number theory and probability.

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 ...

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 ...

It is Pascal's Triangle, the pyramid of numbers in which the series in the next line is given by adding together adjacent pairs in the line above to generate 1, 1 1, 1 2 1, 1 3 3 1, 1 4 6 4 1, and ...

Blaise Pascal was a 17th century French mathematician. He was primarily interested in using the triangle to advance his studies in probability theory – a field which he more or less invented in ...

Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a new specialized phase of matter. It's electronic, and it's fantastic.