Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c7.s4.16

c7.s4.16

The exactly same technique of arriving at the triangular array appeared in China (1303 A.D.) in the work *Ssu Yuan Yü Chien*¹ ('the Old Method Chart of Seven Multiplying Squares' ) of Chu Shih Chieh and in Europe in the publication of Pascal's *Traité du Triangle Arithmetic* (1665 A.D.) The Triangle, however, appeared in Europe more than hundred years before the *Traité* on the title page of the arithmetic of Apianus (1527 A.D.), and in the work of Stifel (1544 A D.), Scheubel (1545 A.D.), Tartaglia (1556 A.D.), Bombelli (1572 A.D.) and others¹, but about four centuries later before it actually appeared in India.