Trigonometric Delights
A fun, entertaining exploration of the ideas and people behind the growth of trigonometry Trigonometry has a reputation as a dry, difficult branch of mathematics, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In Trigonometric Delights, Eli Maor dispels this view. Rejecting the usu...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2020, ©2020
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| Edition: | New Princeton Science Library paperback printing |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- PROLOGUE. Ahmes the Scribe, 1650 B.C.
- Recreational Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
- 1. Angles
- 2. Chords
- Plimpton 322: The Earliest Trigonometric Table?
- 3. Six Functions Come of Age
- Johann Müller, alias Reginunutanus
- 4. Trigonometry Becomes Analytic
- Franςois Viete
- 5. Measuring Heaven and Earth
- Abraham De Moivre
- 6. Two Theorems from Geometry
- 7. Epicycloids and Hypocycloids
- Maria Agnesi and Her "Witch"
- 8. Variations on a Theme by Gauss
- 9. Had Zeno Only Known This!
- 10. (sinx)/x
- 11. A Remarkable Formula
- Jules Lissajous and His Figures
- 12. tanx
- 13. A Mapmaker's Paradise
- 14. sin x = 2: Imaginary Trigonometry
- Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist
- 15. Fourier's Theorem
- Appendixes
- Bibliography
- Credits for Illustrations
- Index