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Trigonometry Retold: (An Expository Article)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

S. Parameswaran
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Trigonometry, like most abstract sciences, has both an operational side and a quantitative side. The customary discussion is mainly quantitative, based as it is on the concept of the radian and the definition of sine and cosine as ratios of the sides of a right-angled triangle. The operational side has been touched upon by V. Naylor in his “Note on the Nature of Trigonometry” (1). Starting with the hypothesis that a function λ(x) exists which has the property

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 42 , Issue 340 , May 1958 , pp. 81 - 83
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1958

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1. The Mathematical Gazette, XVII (1933), pp. 316–18.Google Scholar
2. The Mathematical Gazette, XL (1956), Note 2598, (pp. 130–1).Google Scholar