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Wikipedia's entry about the history of trigonometry is there for all to read (on the website, several reliable sources are referenced at the bottom): "Pre-Hellenic societies such as the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians lacked the concept of an angle measure, but they studied the ratios of the sides of similar triangles and discovered some properties of these ratios.
Third World label by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
First Jamie Marshall was lbw to Sidebottom, still round the wicket and therefore slanting the ball in to the right-hander almost from the return crease, a dismissal just about geometrically possible according to the theory of similar triangles but desperately hard for an umpire to call with confidence.
England's attack has lightweight look as Taylor strikes hard blows by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
In particular, they focused on identifying similar triangles to determine the length of the height (figure 13).
The role of technology in students' conceptual constructions in a ... by Trigo, Manuel Santos / Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics
 
 
 
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