Saturday, September 17, 2005

New Trigonometry Is A Sign Of The Times

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"Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit."



Well, I'm not sure if it'll change the world, but it's definitely an interesting concept, and one, if it's not too expensive a book, will probably be looking at more closely in the future.

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