Trigonometric Delights / / Eli Maor, Eli Maor.
A fun, entertaining exploration of the ideas and people behind the growth of trigonometryTrigonometry 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 usua...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 107 b/w illus. |
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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