Scientific Research and Essays Vol. 1 (2), 028-032, November 2006          
ISSN 1992-2248 © 2006 Academic Journals

Perspective

Binomial coefficients and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Othman Echi

Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Department of Mathematics, University Tunis-El Manar"Campus Universitaire",  2092,Tunis, TUNISIA.E-mail: othechi@yahoo.com, othechi@math.com.

Accepted 3 November, 2006

A historical note is given about the scientist Nasir al-Din al-Tusi legitimating the introduction of a new concept related to binomial coefficients. Al-Tusi binomial coefficients and binomial formulas are introduced and studied.

Key words: Binomial coefficients, binomial theorem, history of Mathematics.