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History of Trigonometry

Trigonometry

A collection of historical facts regarding the development and origins of trigonometry.

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8 Questions Easy Ages 10+ Jul 28, 2026

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1 Which ancient civilization is credited with the earliest development of trigonometry for use in astronomy?

A Ancient Greece
B Ancient Egypt
C Babylonian Empire
D Mayan Civilization

2 Who is often referred to as the 'father of trigonometry' due to his compilation of the first trigonometric table?

A Euclid
B Hipparchus of Nicaea
C Archimedes
D Pythagoras

3 The term 'sine' originates from a mistranslation of which language's word for 'chord' or 'half-chord'?

A Sanskrit
B Latin
C Greek
D Arabic

4 In the 2nd century AD, which astronomer wrote the 'Almagest', which contained a chord table essential for early trigonometric calculations?

A Eratosthenes
B Aristotle
C Ptolemy
D Plato

5 Which 16th-century mathematician was the first to use the term 'trigonometria' in the title of his book?

A Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
B Johannes Kepler
C Isaac Newton
D René Descartes

6 Ancient Indian mathematicians introduced which trigonometric function to represent the 'half-chord' of an arc?

A Secant
B Cosecant
C Sine
D Tangent

7 Islamic mathematicians in the Middle Ages significantly advanced trigonometry by introducing which of these functions?

A Tangent
B Hyperbolic functions
C Logarithms
D Complex numbers

8 The study of trigonometry in the 17th century was revolutionized by the development of which mathematical field by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?

A Statistics
B Calculus
C Set Theory
D Topology

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