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A New Trig?
A math professor claims that he's got a simplified way of analyzing triangles. I'd like to see more about this.
Posted by Rand Simberg at September 18, 2005 09:50 AM
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New New Math
Excerpt: Specifically, a new way to do Trig. 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 trigono...
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New New Math
Excerpt: Specifically, a new way to do Trig. 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 trigono...
Weblog: Rocket Jones
Tracked: September 19, 2005 05:45 PM
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Just read chapter one. Could probably derive chapter two. I'm already thinking about applications to orbital mechanics.
Fun. Good tip, Rand.
Posted by Mitchell Burnside Clapp at September 18, 2005 10:55 AM
Sounds wonderfully intriguing. I just wish it didn't cost over $80 to learn about it.
Posted by Obi-Wan at September 18, 2005 01:06 PM
Good discussion of this over on /. - just a shift in frame of reference and coordinate system.
Essentially just using length and sine squared to facilitate not using square roots (and avoiding irrational numbers that way).
Might be a problem in continuous function problems (e.g. anything waves)
Posted by Bryan at September 18, 2005 01:54 PM
Searched for it on the web, looks like the book is the only place to find it. Does someone who uses this new trig violate the author's copyright?
Posted by Tom at September 19, 2005 05:39 AM
I don't think you can copyright mathematical concepts. The presentation in the book certainly, but not the idea.
Posted by KeithK at September 19, 2005 04:13 PM
You cannot copyright maths. At best you could patent it. Under the new wonderful patent laws the USA has since the 70s at least. Heck, if you can patent LZW compression, why not a bunch of maths formulas?
Posted by Gojira at September 20, 2005 05:09 PM
I'd like to see more too, where can I find a link?
Posted by Jerry at December 11, 2005 03:50 AM
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