My Fathering Trigonometry
“Fathering” Trigonometry
Life is full of beginnings. From budding flowers to newborn babies. Everything on this beautiful earth has a start to a miraculous journey. When I began thinking about this assignment I thought of my 3 year old little brother and how when he entered this world in 2013 it changed my life.
This branched my mind off into the beginning of not only Mathematics but Trigonometry which is why I chose the following topic. Trigonometry was “fathered” by Hipparchus of Nicea an ancient Greek Mathematician and astronomer.
Hipparchus was a scientific genius in his Greek era. He gained most of his success through astronomy although he did influence Trigonometry. Hipparchus calculated the main base of trigonometry. He did this by using …show more content…
However Hipparchus did reject the Heliocentric astronomy Model putting the sun in the center of our solar system(Violatti,3). But he only rejected this due to mathematical evidence supporting otherwise. Hipparchus also thought of Eratosthenes model(Violatti,3). This model accounted for every inch of the earth's surface. He did this using a very unique technique. “He decided to mark off lines completely around the sphere parallel to the equator and at equal intervals. Then he marked off other lines at right angles to these spaced equally at the equator”(Violatti,3). By doing this he resulted in a grid covering the entire globe. He also numbered each one of these lines forming longitude ans well as latitude(Violatti,3). Overall Hipparchus was a genius that contributed so much to science.
Hipparchus is heavily involved in the pre calculus that we study as a class. First of all he set up the basic trigonometric guidelines that we use today. But most importantly he did this through the use of a simple circle. He calculated that one circle should have 360 degrees total.
This concept has stuck through time and it is a concept we use constantly. From this concept
Life is full of beginnings. From budding flowers to newborn babies. Everything on this beautiful earth has a start to a miraculous journey. When I began thinking about this assignment I thought of my 3 year old little brother and how when he entered this world in 2013 it changed my life.
This branched my mind off into the beginning of not only Mathematics but Trigonometry which is why I chose the following topic. Trigonometry was “fathered” by Hipparchus of Nicea an ancient Greek Mathematician and astronomer.
Hipparchus was a scientific genius in his Greek era. He gained most of his success through astronomy although he did influence Trigonometry. Hipparchus calculated the main base of trigonometry. He did this by using …show more content…
However Hipparchus did reject the Heliocentric astronomy Model putting the sun in the center of our solar system(Violatti,3). But he only rejected this due to mathematical evidence supporting otherwise. Hipparchus also thought of Eratosthenes model(Violatti,3). This model accounted for every inch of the earth's surface. He did this using a very unique technique. “He decided to mark off lines completely around the sphere parallel to the equator and at equal intervals. Then he marked off other lines at right angles to these spaced equally at the equator”(Violatti,3). By doing this he resulted in a grid covering the entire globe. He also numbered each one of these lines forming longitude ans well as latitude(Violatti,3). Overall Hipparchus was a genius that contributed so much to science.
Hipparchus is heavily involved in the pre calculus that we study as a class. First of all he set up the basic trigonometric guidelines that we use today. But most importantly he did this through the use of a simple circle. He calculated that one circle should have 360 degrees total.
This concept has stuck through time and it is a concept we use constantly. From this concept