TRIGONOMETRIC
Delights
ELI MAOR
Contents
Preface
Prologue: Ahmes the Scribe, 1650 B.C.
Recreational Mathematics in Ancient Egypt
- Angles
- Chords
Plimpton 322: The Earliest Trigonometric Table?
- Six Functions Come of Age
Johann Müller alias Regiomontanus
- Trigonometry Becomes Analytic
François Viète
- Measuring Heaven and Earth
Abraham De Moivre
- Two Theorems from Geometry
- Epicycloids and Hypocycloids
Maria Agnesi and Her "Witch"
- Variations on a Theme by Gauss
- Had Zeno Only Known This!
- (sinx)/x
- A Remarkable Formula
Jules Lissajous and His Figures
- tanx
- A Mapmaker's Paradise
- sinx = 2: Imaginary Trigonometry
Edmund Landau: The Master Rigorist
- Fourier's Theorem
Appendixes
- Let's Revive an Old Idea
- Barrow's Integration of sec(phi)
- Some Trigonometric Gems
- Some Special Values of sina
Bibliography
Credits for Illustrations
Index
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