Pascal's Arithmetical Triangle
Subtitle: The Story of a Mathematical Idea (Johns Hopkins Paperback)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801869464
Subjects: History of mathematics; Philosophy of mathematics; Pascal's triangle; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Advanced; Number Theory; Mathematics / Advanced
First sentence: The origins of this book lie in my undergraduate training in genetics in 1956, and since they involve one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, R. A. Fisher, about whom any anecdote is worth recording, I shall risk a charge of self-indulgence and describe several.