Maor, Eli.

Trigonometric delights / Eli Maor. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1998. - xiv, 236 p. : ill ; 24 cm. + hbk.

Bibliography: (pages 225-227) and index.

Angles -- Chords -- Six functions come of age -- Trigonometry becomes analytic -- Measuring heaven and earth -- Two theorems for geometry -- Epicycloids and hypocycloids -- Variations on a theme by Gauss -- Had Zeno only known this! -- Sin x/x -- A remarkable formula -- Tan x -- A mapmakers paradise -- Sin x = 2:imaginary trigonometry -- Fourier's theorem.

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