For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because ...

For more than 3,000 years, mathematics has played an important role in Indian culture. Sometimes it was studied for practical reasons and sometimes for pure intellectual delight. The earliest traces ...

A small clay tablet that is 3,700 years old may be about to make studying trigonometry much easier, thanks to the work of an Australian mathematician. Babylonians approach to calculating triangles ...

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Scientists recently decoded a clay tablet from ancient Babylonia that dates to around 3,700 years ago, and found that it contains the oldest trigonometric table in the world. The tablet, discovered in ...

An animated guide to using trigonometry. Trigonometric terms are explained and examples are used to show how to find unknown angles and sides for right-angled triangles. Use as a recap on trigonometry ...

An Indian teacher turned tough mathematical formulae and theorems into jingles. Mathematics hasn't been everyone's cup of tea in school. Ask any student in a school to identify the subject they find ...

Check NCERT Class 10 Maths Chapter 9: Some Applications of Trigonometry. This is latest edition as published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) for academic session ...

Marcus du Sautoy visits an ancient Indian observatory, and explores how Indian mathematicians used trigonometry to make celestial observations. Using examples in right angled triangles, du Sautoy ...