1.0 link 168573 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-whittle/pascals-tennis-game_b_168573.html THE COMPUTATIONAL METHOD at the heart of Pascal's  work was actually discovered by a Chinese  mathematician named Jia Xian around 1050, published  by another Chinese mathematician, Zhu Shijie, in  1303, discussed in a work by Cardano in 1570, and  plugged into the greater whole of probability theory by  Pascal, who ended up getting most of the credit. But  the prior work didn't bother Pascal. "Let no one say I  have said nothing new," Pascal argued in his  autobiography. "The arrangement...]]> 2009-02-20T11:28:00-05:00