Pascal didn't invent pascals triangle, he just made It popular. A Chinese mathematician invented it in about 1015.
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Blaise Pascal invented the first calculator and Pascals triangle.
Blaise Pascal (France, 1623-1662) His inventions include the hydraulic press and the syringe.Hope this helps!Pascal was a mathematician in the 17th century. He described Pascal's Triangle, possibly one of the easiest methods of binomial expansion.
The year he turned 19, Blaise Pascal started work on a mechanical calculator. He finished it three years later. It was not to help his dad prepare his personal taxes, it was to help in his father's work as a tax collector. Building a mechanical calculator is pretty amazing in and of itself, but consider these two things: 1) That Blaise had not been allowed to read about or study mathematics as a child until, at age 12, he showed his dad that he had figured out some geometry on his own, and 2) That this all happened about 350 years ago.
Pascal had the idea to invent the calculator while observing and aiding his father's official work as supervisor of taxes at Rouen. He saw what a strenuous and complicated it was to do the math, so he decided to make a device that would simplify the process.
There are several different formulae for the area of a triangle - depending on the available information - and these were invented by different people.