The arithmetic triangle was developed in 1653 by Blaise Pascal. He named this triangle after himself and today it is known as Pascal's Triangle. It is an arrangement of certain whole numbers in a triangular pattern. Blaise Pascal was regarded as a brilliant man of his own time. He made contributions to science, mathematics, and religious philosophy. Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand of central France. His father was a highly placed civil official and …showed first 75 words of 262 total…

…showed last 75 words of 262 total…the loss of every portion of fluid and to the walls of the container. It also says that the pressure at a point in the fluid at rest is the same in all directions. The arithmetic triangle was known about long before Pascal's time. Omar Khayyam used it in 1100 and Chu Shih-Chieh of 1303 included it in a Chinese manuscript. European mathematicians used it one hundred years before Pascal during the development of science and algebra.