This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, phone in hand, trying to measure the distance to the opposite side – no tape measure, no drone, just your brain. Now what? Trigonometry just became your ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership ...