WorksheetsHistory of Trigonometry
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Trigonometry comes from two Greek Words: Trigonon which means triangle and _____ which means measurement?
Metria
Metron
Metro
Metran
The Golden Age of Trigonometry was from 190 - 120 BCE by the Greeks. Who is one of the greatest contributors during that time? Clue: He is an astronomer, geographer and a mathematician. He constructed trigonometric tables and used these to reliably predict solar eclipses.
Hipparcus of Nicea
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Archimedes
Who used the concept of Trigonometry to observe planetary motion?
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Archimedes
Hipparcus
Who is an Indian Mathematician/Astronomer/Physicist who discovered Sine and Cosine?
Amir Khan
Aryabhata
Muhammad Giddy
Raju Arik
He introduced the abbreviation of the six trigonometric ratios.
William Oughtred
Francois Viete
Johann Muller
Aryabhata
Who wrote the first treatise on Trigonometry that was independent of the topic of astronomy?
Georg Purbach
Nasir Eddin
Aryabhata
Simon Stevins
He is credited in many abbreviation in the fields of trigonometry, algebra and calculus, one of which is "i " used for complex numbers and "e" which is an irrational number equivalent to 2.7182.
Abraham de Moivre
Francois Viete
Isaac Newton
Leonhard Euler
He is one of the mathematicians who uses complex number in trigonometry.
Gotfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Bartholomeus Pitiscus
Abraham de Moivre
Leonhard Euler
He wrote three books in trigonometry the Spherica which contains spherical triangle, spherical geometry and rule of the six quantities.
Meneleus of Alexandria
Archimedes
Claude Ptolemy
Hipparcus of Nicaea
The word "jya" means _____.
tangent
sine
chord
cosine
