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 ...

a missing side in a right-angled triangle when another side and an angle are known. a missing angle in a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. In these formulae, the Greek letter θ (theta) ...

"Who is the person that discovered trigonometry?" asked a young Schaumburg Township District Library patron who attended the "Summer Scientists" program. Wanting to determine distances between stars, ...