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Announcement#1 2005-09-16 20:53:15Is trigonometry obsolete?Read this article I posted on the main page and let me know what you think: Chemists are physicists who don't do math.  Offline #2 2005-09-18 23:09:00
Re: Is trigonometry obsolete?Even if his method is found to be useful, that really doesn't remove the need for physicists, or really any scientist/engineer, to know about sines and cosines. You can change your metrics, thus obviating one basic use of trig functions, but you can't change the need of our society for the sorts of things Fourier analysis gets applied to. Sines and cosines are much more important as the basis functions used in Fourier series/transforms than they are as logarithms dressed up in trigonometric clothing. Last edited by dgeek42 (2005-09-18 23:10:45) Offline |