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单词 PascalsTriangle
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Pascal’s triangle


Pascal’s triangleMathworldPlanetmath, also called Tartaglia’s triangle, is the following configurationMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath of numbers:

111121133114641151010511615201561172135352171

In general, this triangle is constructed such that entrieson the left side and right sideare 1, and every entry inside the triangle is obtained byadding the two entries immediately above it. For instance,on the fourth row 4=1+3.

Historically, the application of this triangle has been to givethe coefficients when expanding binomial expressions. For instance,to expand (a+b)4, one simply look up thecoefficients on the fourth row, and write

(a+b)4=a4+4a3b+6a2b2+4ab3+b4.

Pascal’s triangle is named after the French mathematicianBlaise Pascal (1623-1662) [3].However, this triangle was known at leastaround 1100 AD in China; five centuries before Pascal[1]. In modern languagePlanetmathPlanetmath, the expansionof the binomial is given bythe binomial theoremMathworldPlanetmath discovered by Isaac Newtonin 1665 [2]: For any n=1,2, and real numbers a,b, wehave

(a+b)n=k=0n(nk)an-kbk
=an+(n1)an-1b+(n2)an-2b2++bn.

Thus, in Pascal’s triangle, the entries on the nth row are given bythe binomial coefficientsMathworldPlanetmath

(nk)=n!(n-k)!k!.

for k=1,,n.

Pascal’s triangle has many interesting numerical properties. For example, it is easy to see that the sum of the entries in the nth row is 2n. This can be easily proved by inductionMathworldPlanetmath, but a more elegant proof goes as follows:

2n=(1+1)n=k=0n(nk)1n-k1k=k=0n(nk)

If you look at the long diagonals parallel to the diagonal sides of the triangle, you see in the second diagonal the integers 1,2,3,4,. The next diagonal down contains the triangular numbersMathworldPlanetmath 1,3,6,10,15,, and the row below that the tetrahedral numberMathworldPlanetmath 1,4,10,20,35,. It is easy to see why this is: for example, each triangular number is the sum of the previous triangular number and the next integer, which precisely reflects the arrangement of the triangle. Each tetrahedral number is the sum of the previous tetrahedral number and the size of the next “layer” of the tetrahedron, which is just the next triangular number. Similarly, succeeding diagonals give “triangular” number in higher dimensions.

References

  • 1 Wikipedia’s http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficiententry on the binomial coefficients
  • 2 Wikipedia’s http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newtonentry on Isaac Newton
  • 3 Wikipedia’s http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascalentry on Blaise Pascal
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