This clay tablet written around the year 1800 B.C.E. may represent the oldest known use of trigonometry UNSW / Andrew Kelly A new analysis of a long-studied Babylonian tablet suggests that ...
The sides of right-angled triangles are labelled opposite, hypotenuse and adjacent. Trigonometry explores the relationship between sides and angles in right-angled triangles. The hypotenuse is the ...
THE Paralogistes pseudomathematicus has become so rare, or possibly so shy, that it is a real pleasure to find that the species is not extinct. Alack! that De Morgan is not with us, to do justice to ...