杨辉 (YángHuī): Yang Hui (c. 1238-1298)

Meanings

1 Yang Hui (c. 1238-1298)
2 Southern Song mathematician; his 'Yang Hui Triangle' is the Chinese name for Pascal's triangle

Characters

杨

Examples

杨辉三角在西方被称为帕斯卡三角。

Yáng Huī sānjiǎo zài xīfāng bèi chēngwéi Pàsīkǎ sānjiǎo.

Yang Hui's Triangle is known in the West as Pascal's Triangle.

学生在中学阶段就会学习杨辉三角。

Xuéshēng zài zhōngxué jiēduàn jiù huì xuéxí Yáng Huī sānjiǎo.

Students learn about Yang Hui's Triangle in middle school.

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history

Recorded the binomial-coefficient triangle in his 1261 work 《详解九章算法》 — nearly four centuries before Blaise Pascal's 1655 treatise. Yang credited an even earlier version to the 11th-century mathematician Jia Xian (贾宪), so the figure is sometimes called 贾宪三角.