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Note on the Nature of Trigonometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

V Naylor
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Trigonometry , like most abstract sciences, has both an operational side and a quantitative side.

The operational side is dominated by the hypothesis that a function f(x) exists which has the property

It is from this that the usual rules for operating with the trigonometric functions are deduced.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 17 , Issue 226 , December 1933 , pp. 316 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1933 

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