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The Binomial Theorem in Literature

            There are several literary references to the Binomial Theorem.  Here is a brief sample which we would be happy to expand upon if any of our gentle readers know others we should add.  Send us an e-mail and we will include your suggestions.

"About Binomial Theorem I'm teeming with a lot of news (lot of news, lot of news... A-ha!)
 With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!"
I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan


"At the age of twenty-one he [Prof. Moriarity] wrote a treatise upon the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue.  On the strength of it, he won the Mathematical Chair at one of our smaller universities."
The Adventure of the Final Problem
Arthur Conan Doyle


Foreman: Break it up, break it up. (he hits them with his pickaxe) I'm sick of all this bloody fighting. If it's not the bloody Treaty of Utrecht, it's the bloody Binomial Theorem. This isn't the senior common room at All Souls, it's a bloody coal face.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (a sketch about well-educated but violently argumentative Welsh coal miners)