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Trigonometric Delights
by Eli Maor
Trigonometric Delights
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
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 Regiomontanus
4. Trigonometry Becomes Analytic
François Viète
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. (sin x)/x
11. A Remarkable Formula
Jules Lissajous and His Figures
12. tan x
13. A Mapmaker’s Paradise
14. sin x = 2: Imaginary Trigonometry
Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist
15. Fourier’s Theorem
Appendixes
1. Let’s Revive an Old Idea
2. Barrow’s Integration of sec ϕ
3. Some Trigonometric Gems
4. Some Special Values of sin α
Bibliography
Credits for Illustrations
Index
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