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Hipparchus of Nicaea - founder of Trigonometry and constructed an accurate table of the ratios of sides of a right triangle.
Madhava - he made the first analysis of trigonometric functions and their infinite series.
- he introduced
spherical trigonometry in China
Claude Ptolemy - he wrote the Almagest and made a table for ratios of angles between 0 to 180 degrees.
Omar Khayyam
- he is a Persian
Nasir Eddin - he made the Law of sines and made the first independent treatise of trigonometry
Johann Bernoulli - he solved the problem of Caternary and contributed in modern Trigonometry
Menelaus of Alexandria - he wrote books I, II. And III about the spherical triangle.
Ibn Yunes
- he contributed in
Aristarchos of Samos - he wrote the book on the sites and distances of the sun and moon that introduced 360 degrees circle
Bartholomaeus Ptiscus - he coined the term Trigonometry and made the first textbook about it Leonhard Euler - he wrote the book Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum which defined trigonometric functions as ratios
Al-Jayyani
Aryabhatta - he introduced the Pi and its value which is 3.14
of unknown arcs of a sphere and contributed in the spherical trigonometry Ab al-Waf' al Bzjn - he introduced the six trigonometric functions
Dark Ages
William Oughtred - he made abbreviations for sin, cos and tan and introduced the X in multiplication
Abraham de Moivre
- he wrote the
Jamshid al Kadhi
- he is the first to
book Miscellanea Analytica which is about the special reference to infinite series
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Medieval Period