The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry

by Glen Van Brummelen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $68.43

  Presents the history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. This book identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus. It traces trigonometry's development into a full-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam.