The ancient Greeks present: Rational Trigonometry

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Authors Norman John Wildberger

Publication date 20 June 2008

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-02) Analytic geometry with other transformation groups (51N25)

Abstract: Pythagoras' theorem, the area of a triangle as one half the base times the height, and Heron's formula are amongst the most important and useful results of ancient Greek geometry. Here we look at all three in a new and improved light, using quadrance not distance. This leads to a simpler and more elegant trigonometry, in which angle is replaced by spread, and which extends to arbitrary fields and more general quadratic forms.

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