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  2. History of trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    Bhaskara II developed spherical trigonometry, and discovered many trigonometric results. Bhaskara II was the one of the first to discover and trigonometric results like: Madhava (c. 1400) made early strides in the analysis of trigonometric functions and their infinite series expansions.

  3. History of algebra - Wikipedia

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    The word "algebra" is derived from the Arabic word الجبرal-jabr, and this comes from the treatise written in the year 830 by the medieval Persian mathematician, Al-Khwārizmī, whose Arabic title, Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala, can be translated as The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing.

  4. Trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    Fourier. v. t. e. Trigonometry (from Ancient Greek τρίγωνον (trígōnon) 'triangle' and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') [1] is a branch of mathematics concerned with relationships between angles and side lengths of triangles. In particular, the trigonometric functions relate the angles of a right triangle with ratios of its side lengths.

  5. Al-Khwarizmi - Wikipedia

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    Al-Khwarizmi. Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi[note 1] (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm -born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of ...

  6. Proofs of trigonometric identities - Wikipedia

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    Pythagorean identities. Identity 1: The following two results follow from this and the ratio identities. To obtain the first, divide both sides of by ; for the second, divide by . Similarly. Identity 2: The following accounts for all three reciprocal functions. Proof 2: Refer to the triangle diagram above.

  7. Uses of trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    In Chapter XI of The Age of Reason, the American revolutionary and Enlightenment thinker Thomas Paine wrote: [1]. The scientific principles that man employs to obtain the foreknowledge of an eclipse, or of any thing else relating to the motion of the heavenly bodies, are contained chiefly in that part of science that is called trigonometry, or the properties of a triangle, which, when applied ...