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Note on the Nature of Trigonometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

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.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1933 

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