The ancient Greeks present: Rational Trigonometry

Details The ancient Greeks present: Rational Trigonometry The ancient Greeks present: Rational Trigonometry

2008-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/0806.3481v1

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

9 pages, 5 figures

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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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