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History of development of binomial expansion. (English) Zbl 1106.01003

Summary: “The contributions of various mathematicians like Varāhamihira Mahāvirācārya Bhaskaracarya, Omar Khayyam, Pascal, Newton and Gauss etc. in the development of the binomial expansion and its validity are discussed. Some other binomial theorems are stated”.
See also the paper of J. L. Coolidge in Am. Math. Mon. 56, 147–157 (1949; Zbl 0033.24201).

MSC:

01A05 General histories, source books
05-03 History of combinatorics

Citations:

Zbl 0033.24201
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