Rooted in ancient astronomy, trigonometry is mathematics' powerful toolkit for scientific measurement. It has been at the heart of the study of infinity, complex and imaginary numbers, and the shape of the space itself. Our experience of the universe has been made possible, and deeply challenged, by this surprisingly deep and fruitful subject.
Rooted in ancient astronomy, trigonometry is mathematics' powerful toolkit for scientific measurement. It has been at the heart of the study of infinity, complex and imaginary numbers, and the shape of the space itself. Our experience of the universe has been made possible, and deeply challenged, by this surprisingly deep and fruitful subject.
Glen Van Brummelen is Coordinator of mathematics at Quest University. He has served twice as President of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. His books include The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry (Princeton, 2009) and Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry (Princeton, 2013). Van Brummelen won the Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2016, and the following year won the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada's most prestigious award for educational leadership.
Inhaltsangabe
1: Why? 2: Sines, Cosines and their Relatives 3: Building a Sine Table with Your Bare Hands: The Basic Identities 4: Identities, and More Identities 5: To Infinity... 6: ...And Beyond, to Complex Things 7: Spheres and More Further Reading
1: Why? 2: Sines, Cosines and their Relatives 3: Building a Sine Table with Your Bare Hands: The Basic Identities 4: Identities, and More Identities 5: To Infinity... 6: ...And Beyond, to Complex Things 7: Spheres and More Further Reading
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