Thales's theorem theorem is named after Thales because he was said by ancient sources to have been the first to prove the theorem, using his own results that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal, and that the sum of angles in a triangle is equal to 180°. Dante's "Paradiso" (canto 13, lines 101–102) refers to Thales's theorem in the course of a speech. The following facts are used: the sum of the angles in a triangle is equal to 180° and the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal. Since = = , ∆OBA and ∆OBC are isosceles
Bernoulli's triangle component in row "n" and column "k", then: As in Pascal's triangle and other similarly constructed triangles, sums of components along diagonal paths in Bernoulli's triangle result in the Fibonacci numbers. Bernoulli's triangle Bernoulli's triangle is an array of partial sums of the binomial coefficients. For any non-negative integer "n" and for any integer "k" included between 0 and "n", the component in row "n" and column "k" is given by: i.e., the sum of the first "k" "n"th-order binomial coefficients. The first rows of Bernoulli's triangle are: Similarly to Pascal's triangle, each component of Bernoulli's triangle is the sum