An elementary proof of Niven's theorem via the tangent function

DOI10.1080/0020739X.2020.1799088MaRDI QIDQ5072211zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bonaventura Paolillo, Giovanni Vincenzi

Publication date 25 April 2022

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2020.1799088

zbMATH Keywords

tangent functiontrigonometric functionsNiven's theoremrational values

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Plane and spherical trigonometry (educational aspects) (97G60)

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