Definition:Trigonometry/Historical Note

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Historical Note on trigonometry

The field of trigonometry emerged in ancient Greece during the $3$rd century BCE from applications of geometry to astronomical studies.

While the Greeks focused on the calculation of chords, mathematicians in India created the earliest-known tables of values for trigonometric functions such as sine.


An analytic approach to trigonometry was introduced by Leonhard Paul Euler.


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