The development of modern trigonometry shifted during the western Age of Enlightenment, beginning with 17th-century mathematics (Isaac Newton and James Stirling) and reaching its modern form with Leonhard Euler (1748)
Translations of Arabic and Greek textsled to trigonometry being adopted as a subject in the Latin West beginning in the Renaissance with Regiomontanus.
It became an independent discipline in the Islamic world, where all six trigonometric functions were known.
In Indian astronomy, the study of trigonometric functions flourished in the Gupta period, especially due to Aryabhata(1), who discovered the sine function. the study of trigonometry continued in Islamic mathematics, by mathematicians such as Al-Khwarizmi(2) and Abu al-Wafa(3).
Early study of triangles can be traced to the 2nd millennium BC, in Egyptian mathematics(Rhind Mathematical Papyrus) and Babylonian mathematics. Systematic study of trigonometric functions began in Hellenistic mathematics, reaching India as part of Hellenistic astronomy.
The Babylonians could measure angles, and are believed to have invented the division of the circle into 360º.However, it were the Greeks who are seen as the original pioneers of trigonometry.
Euclid A Greek mathematician, , who lived around 300 BC was an important figure in geometry and trigonometry.
Abraham de Moivre French mathematician who was a pioneer in the development of analytic trigonometry and in the theory of probability. French mathematician who was a pioneer in the development of analytic trigonometry and in the theory of probability.
James Gregory, also spelled James Gregorie Scottish mathematician and astronomer who discovered infinite series representations for a number of trigonometry functions.
Hipparchus Greek astronomer and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the advancement of astronomy as a mathematical science and to the foundations of trigonometry.
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