Monday 4 March 2013

Pascal, the unit for pressure

Well, many of us who are in Form 4, in Physics, we know the Pascal is the SI unit for pressure.

However, Pascal is not ONLY th unit for pressure. Introducing Pascal...... (drum roll)

Yes, this is Pascal (Blaisce Pascal)

He is a French MATHEMATICIAN, PHYSICIST, INVENTOR, WRITER AND PHILOSOPHER (a super intelligent man in short). 


Pascal influenced mathematics throughout his life. He
described a convenient tabular presentation
for binomial coefficients, now called Pascal's
triangle. The triangle can also be represented:



Looks cool, doesn't it?!
He defines the numbers in the triangle by recursion:
Pascal concluded this concept with this equation (which
might seem like a completely cannot-be-understood
thing).
t_{mn} = \frac{(m+n)(m+n-1)...(m+1)}{n(n-1)...1}.\

His principles and inventions might be hard for us to understand at this level but sooner or later when we learn Mathematics in depth, we would certainly understand and appreciate Blaise Pascal for all his contributions towards the Mathematics field.


Adios,
4SM

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