This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships between the sides and angles of triangles. Trigonometry is found all throughout geometry, as every straight-sided shape may be broken ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...

Trigonometric identities might seem like abstract mathematical concepts, but they're actually powerful problem-solving tools that can transform seemingly impossible equations into manageable solutions ...

Trigonometry is the branch of mathematics that explains the relationship between sides and angles of a triangle. In a right angled triangle the three sides are perpendicular, base and hypotenuse, as ...

Math Horizons is intended primarily for undergraduates interested in mathematics. Our purpose is to introduce students to the world of mathematics outside the classroom. Thus, while we especially ...

A small clay tablet that is 3,700 years old may be about to make studying trigonometry much easier, thanks to the work of an Australian mathematician. Babylonians approach to calculating triangles ...

Excel has built-in functions for sine and cosine, the two core trigonometric functions, and for hyperbolic sine and hyperbolic cosine, their hyperbolic counterparts. It also has built-in functions for ...

Scientists recently decoded a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia that dates to around 3,700 years ago, and found that it contains the oldest trigonometric table in the world. The tablet, discovered in ...