A rule for the expansion of a binomial expression (expression consisting of the sum of two variables raised to a given power). The general binomial expression (x+y)n expands to:
The theorem that gives the expansion of the nth power, where n is a non-negative integer, of a binomial:
where
The binomial coefficient is often written as nCr (see combination). Setting a=b=1 gives the relation
The theorem appears in the 1742 Treatise of Fluxions by Maclaurin.
- laminite
- laminoid fenestrae
- Lami’s Theorem
- Lamont, Johann von
- LAMOST
- La Mothe le Vayer, François de (1588–1672)
- LAMP
- lamp
- lamp black
- lampbrush chromosome
- lamprey
- lamprophyre
- lamp shells
- Lamy, Bernard (1640–1715)
- Lamé constant
- LAN
- Lancaster, Oliver Henry (1913–2001)
- Lancastrian
- Lancefieldian
- lancelet
- land
- land and sea breezes
- Landau damping
- Landauer’s principle
- Landau ghost