Mathologer

Secret of row 10: a new visual key to ancient Pascalian puzzles (2019x8)

Air date: Nov 30, 2019

Today's video is about a recent chance discovery (2002) that provides a new beautiful visual key to some hidden self-similar patterns in Pascal's triangle and some naturally occurring patterns on snail shells. Featuring, Sierpinski's triangle, Pascal's triangle, some modular arithmetic and my giant pet snail shell.