Blaise Pascal was not the first man in Europe to study the binomial coefficients, and never claimed to be; indeed, both Blaise Pascal and his father Etienne had been in correspondence with Father Marin Mersenne, who published a book with a table of binomial coefficients in 1636. Many authors discussed the ideas with respect to expansions of binomials, answers to combinatorial problems and figurative numbers, numbers relating to figures such as triangles, squares, tetrahedrals and pyramids.
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