Cover art for The Doctrine of Triangles
Published
Princeton University Press, September 2021
ISBN
9780691179414
Format
Hardcover, 392 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.5cm

The Doctrine of Triangles A History of Modern Trigonometry by

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An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth

The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understan

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