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Trigonometry
- the term originates from the Greek trigōnon "triangle" + metron
"measure" is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the
relationships between the lengths of their sides and the angles between those
sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those
relationships and have applicability to cyclical phenomena, such as waves. The
field evolved during the third century BC as a branch of geometry used extensively
for astronomical studies. It is also the
foundation of the practical art of surveying.
Trigonometry
basics are often taught in school either as a separate course or as part of a
precalculus course. The trigonometric functions are pervasive in parts of pure
mathematics and applied mathematics such as Fourier analysis and the wave
equation, which are in turn essential to many branches of science and
technology. Spherical trigonometry studies triangles on spheres, surfaces of
constant positive curvature, in elliptic geometry. It is fundamental to
astronomy and navigation. Trigonometry on surfaces of negative curvature is
part of Hyperbolic geometry.
There
are an enormous number of uses of trigonometry and trigonometric functions. For
instance, the technique of triangulation is used in astronomy to measure the
distance to nearby stars, in geography to measure distances between landmarks,
and in satellite navigation systems. The sine and cosine functions are
fundamental to the theory of periodic functions such as those that describe sound
and light waves.
Fields
that use trigonometry or trigonometric functions include astronomy especially
for locating apparent positions of celestial objects, in which spherical
trigonometry is essential and hence navigation on the oceans, in aircraft, and
in space, music theory, acoustics, optics, analysis of financial markets,
electronics, probability theory, statistics, biology, medical imaging CAT scans
and ultrasound, pharmacy, chemistry, number theory and hence cryptology,
seismology, meteorology, oceanography, many physical sciences, land surveying
and geodesy, architecture, phonetics, economics, electrical engineering,
mechanical engineering, civil engineering, computer graphics, cartography,
crystallography and game development.
Ordinary
trigonometry studies triangles in the Euclidean plane R2. There are a number of
ways of defining the ordinary Euclidean geometric trigonometric functions on
real numbers: right-angled triangle definitions, unit-circle definitions,
series definitions, definitions via differential equations, definitions using
functional equations. Generalizations of trigonometric functions are often
developed by starting with one of the above methods and adapting it to a
situation other than the real numbers of Euclidean geometry. Generally,
trigonometry can be the study of triples of points in any kind of geometry or
space. A triangle is the polygon with the smallest number of vertices, so one
direction to generalize is to study higher-dimensional analogs of angles and
polygons: solid angles and polytopes such as tetrahedrons and n-simplices.
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In spherical trigonometry, triangles on
the surface of a sphere are studied. The spherical triangle identities are
written in terms of the ordinary trigonometric functions but differ from the
plane triangle identities.
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Hyperbolic trigonometry
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Rational trigonometry – a reformulation
of trigonometry in terms of spread and quadrance rather than angle and length.
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Trigonometry in Galois fields
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Trigonometry for taxicab geometry
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Spacetime trigonometries
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Fuzzy qualitative trigonometry
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Operator trigonometry
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Lattice trigonometry
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Trigonometry on symmetric spaces
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Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Trigonometry...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Applied Mathematics...
Applied
mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with mathematical
methods that are typically used in science, engineering, business, and
industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a mathematical science with
specialized knowledge. The term "applied mathematics" also describes
the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on practical problems;
as a profession focused on practical problems, applied mathematics focuses on
the formulation and study of mathematical models.
In
the past, practical applications have motivated the development of mathematical
theories, which then became the subject of study in pure mathematics, where
mathematics is developed primarily for its own sake. Thus, the activity of
applied mathematics is vitally connected with research in pure mathematics.
Today,
the term "applied mathematics" is used in a broader sense. It
includes the classical areas above, as well as other areas that have become
increasingly important in applications. Even fields such as number theory that
are part of pure mathematics are now important in applications such as
cryptography, though they are not generally considered to be part of the field
of applied mathematics per se. Sometimes, the term "applicable
mathematics" is used to distinguish between the traditional applied
mathematics that developed alongside physics and the many areas of mathematics
that are applicable to real-world problems today.
There
is no consensus as to what the various branches of applied mathematics are.
Such categorizations are made difficult by the way mathematics and science
change over time, and also by the way universities organize departments,
courses, and degrees.
Many
mathematicians distinguish between "applied mathematics", which is
concerned with mathematical methods, and the "applications of
mathematics" within science and engineering. A biologist using a
population model and applying known mathematics would not be doing applied
mathematics, but rather using it; however, mathematical biologists have posed
problems that have stimulated the growth of pure mathematics. Mathematicians
such as Poincaré and Arnold deny the existence of "applied
mathematics" and claim that there are only "applications of
mathematics"; similarly, non-mathematicians blend applied mathematics and
applications of mathematics. The use and development of mathematics to solve
industrial problems is also called "industrial mathematics".
The
success of modern numerical mathematical methods and software has led to the
emergence of computational mathematics, computational science, and
computational engineering, which use high-performance computing for the
simulation of phenomena and the solution of problems in the sciences and
engineering.
Some
universities in the host departments of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical
Physics, but it is now much less common to have separate departments of pure
and applied mathematics. A notable exception to this is the Department of
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at lots of Universities.
Schools
with separate applied mathematics departments range from the University, which
has a well-known and large Division of Applied Mathematics that offers degrees
through the doctorate, which offers only the M.S. in applied mathematics. Research
universities dividing their mathematics department into pure and applied
sections.
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Friday, 15 February 2013
Math The Intro..
Mathematics - The term máthēma from Greek which means "knowledge,
study, and learning" is the abstract study of topics encompassing quantity,
structure, space, change, and other properties; it has no generally accepted
definition. Through the use of abstraction and logical
reasoning, mathematics developed from counting, calculation, measurement, and
the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Practical
mathematics has been a human activity for as far back as written records exists.
Mathematics is used
throughout the world as an essential tool in many fields, including natural
science, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Applied mathematics,
the branch of mathematics concerned with application of mathematical knowledge
to other fields, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries, which
has led to the development of entirely new mathematical disciplines, such as Mathematics
and game theory.
Three leading types of
definition of mathematics are called logicist, intuitionist, and formalist, each reflecting a different philosophical school
of thought.
Logicist
:
Intuitionist
definitions, developing from the philosophy of mathematician L.E.J. Brouwer,
identify mathematics with certain mental phenomena. An example of an
intuitionist definition is "Mathematics is the mental activity which
consists in carrying out constructs one after the other." A peculiarity of
intuitionism is that it rejects some mathematical ideas considered valid
according to other definitions. In particular, while other philosophies of
mathematics allow objects that can be proven to exist even though they cannot
be constructed, intuitionism allows only mathematical objects that one can
actually construct.
Formalist
:
Formalist definitions
identify mathematics with its symbols and the rules for operating on them.
Haskell Curry defined mathematics simply as "the science of formal systems".
A formal system is a set of symbols, or tokens, and some rules telling how the
tokens may be combined into formulas. In formal systems, the word axiom has a
special meaning, different from the ordinary meaning of "a self-evident
truth". In formal systems, an axiom is a combination of tokens that is
included in a given formal system without needing to be derived using the rules
of the system.
Applied
mathematics
Applied mathematics
concerns itself with mathematical methods that are typically used in science,
engineering, business, and industry. Thus, "applied mathematics" is a
mathematical science with specialized knowledge. The term applied mathematics
also describes the professional specialty in which mathematicians work on
practical problems; as a profession focused on practical problems, applied
mathematics focuses on the "formulation, study, and use of mathematical
models" in science, engineering, and other areas of mathematical practice.
In the past, practical
applications have motivated the development of mathematical theories, which
then became the subject of study in pure mathematics, where mathematics is
developed primarily for its own sake. Thus, the activity of applied mathematics
is vitally connected with research in pure mathematics.
Mathematics
and other decision sciences
Applied mathematics has
significant overlap with the discipline of Mathematics, whose theory is
formulated mathematically, especially with probability theory. Statisticians
(working as part of a research project) "create data that makes
sense" with random sampling and with randomized experiments; the design of
a statistical sample or experiment specifies the analysis of the data (before
the data be available). When reconsidering data from experiments and samples or
when analyzing data from observational studies, statisticians "make sense
of the data" using the art of modelling and the theory of inference – with
model selection and estimation; the estimated models and consequential
predictions should be tested on new data.
Statistical theory
studies decision problems such as minimizing the risk (expected loss) of a
statistical action, such as using a procedure in, for example, parameter
estimation, hypothesis testing, and selecting the best. In these traditional
areas of mathematical Mathematics, a statistical-decision problem is formulated
by minimizing an objective function, like expected loss or cost, under specific
constraints: For example, designing a survey often involves minimizing the cost
of estimating a population mean with a given level of confidence. Because of
its use of optimization, the mathematical theory of Mathematics shares concerns
with other decision sciences, such as operations research, control theory, and
mathematical economics.
Computational
mathematics
Computational
mathematics proposes and studies methods for solving mathematical problems that
are typically too large for human numerical capacity. Numerical analysis
studies methods for problems in analysis using functional analysis and
approximation theory; numerical analysis includes the study of approximation
and discretization broadly with special concern for rounding errors. Numerical
analysis and, more broadly, scientific computing also study non-analytic topics
of mathematical science, especially algorithmic matrix and graph theory. Other
areas of computational mathematics include computer algebra and symbolic computation.
Universities and
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