You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...

Trigonometry and calculus often trouble board exam students due to heavy formulas and poor conceptual clarity. This article ...

1626: Edmund Gunter dies. He invented tools for computation, navigation and surveying, and devised the trigonometry concepts of cosine and cotangent. Gunter was born sometime in 1581 in Hertfordshire, ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --The ancient Babylonians - who lived from about 4,000 BCE in what is now Iraq - had a long forgotten understanding of right-angled triangles that was much simpler and more accurate than ...

"Who is the person that discovered trigonometry?" asked a young Schaumburg Township District Library patron who attended the "Summer Scientists" program. Wanting to determine distances between stars, ...