Trigonometric sums and summation formulas have long served as essential tools for elucidating periodic phenomena across mathematics and the physical sciences. These techniques entail the explicit ...

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HAMDEN -- With this teacher, trigonometry is as easy as one, two, three, four, five. Since 2002, students who have taken Kathryn Gniadek's advanced mathematics classes at Sacred Heart Academy have ...

The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

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 ...

Two US college students discovered five new proofs of Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry, expanding the theorem's understanding in a published study. In an remarkable academic achievement, two US ...