> the main issue in my view is that everyone still refers to it as Pascal's triangle, even though as you say there is evidence which proves that Pascal was not

> the main issue in my view is that everyone still refers to it as Pascal's triangle, even though as you say there is evidence which proves that Pascal was not the first to discover it. This is fairly common. It even has a name: Stigler's law of eponymy. Which, incidentally, was originally stated by Robert K. Merton. There's a fun list of examples on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_examples_of_Stigler%27...