trigonometric
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If verified, Johnson and Jackson’s proof would contradict mathematician and educator Elisha Loomis, who stated in his 1927 book The Pythagorean Proposition that no trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem could be correct.
From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2023
“A lot of the basic trig ‘identities’ are nothing more than Pythagoras’ theorem,” explains Anderson, referring to equations that describe relationships among different trigonometric functions.
From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2023
So what exactly is a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem, and why was Loomis so closed off to the idea?
From Scientific American • Apr. 10, 2023
The even-odd identities relate the value of a trigonometric function at a given angle to the value of the function at the opposite angle and determine whether the identity is odd or even.
From Textbooks • Dec. 1, 2021
“That last trigonometric function wasn’t as easy as it looked.”
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
