Deirdre O'Toole

early in his life he invented a pascaline which is an early calcualtor

Since Pascal's time, mathematicians have found numerous patterns in Pascal's triangle. His triangle is taught throughout math classes today.

Blaise Pascal was inspired by Euclid

Pascal's father then brought him into the society of mathematicians

Using Pascal's triangle, one can in fact find the number of ways of choosing k items from a set of n items simply by looking at the kth entry on the nth row of the triangle. So, to see how many different trios you could form using the 45 members of your jazz band, you would look at the 3nd entry on the 45th row. (The "1" at the top of the triangle is considered the "0"th row, and the first entry on each row is labeled the "0"th entry on the row.)

Pascal was a French mathmetician(1623-1662)