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| Brett |
 Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:43 am |
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Hi,
I don't currently have access to a university library, or I'd browse
the stacks to find what I'm looking for. I am in need of a
trigonometry textbook. I am not interested in anything published in
the last 30 years. Does anyone know of a good, solid, old-school trig
book with the four-place table of sine/cosine/tan in the back, & a
discussion of spherical as well as plane trig? To re-iterate: anything
from Amazon is probably of no use to me. Thanks.
Brett |
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| Ken Oliver |
| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 5:44 am |
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If you can find it, the old trig text book by Welchons, Krickenberger and
Pearson sounds exactly like what you are looking for.
"Brett" <cauchy_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Hi,
I don't currently have access to a university library, or I'd browse
the stacks to find what I'm looking for. I am in need of a
trigonometry textbook. I am not interested in anything published in
the last 30 years. Does anyone know of a good, solid, old-school trig
book with the four-place table of sine/cosine/tan in the back, & a
discussion of spherical as well as plane trig? To re-iterate: anything
from Amazon is probably of no use to me. Thanks.
Brett |
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| Poorrichard |
| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 9:08 pm |
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I happen to collect old trig books. Here is what I would recommend:
The AMS (Chelsea Publishing) has a reprint of Dickson's 1921 "Plane
Trigonometry with Applications".
ISBN:0-8284-0230-2. It is hardcover, bn.com has it for ~$14. This book has
fairly extensive tables.
For spherical trig, you can get a 'print on demand' hardcover version of
ToddHunter's 1886 treat "Spherical Trigonometry". Go here:
http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/browse.html
Then look under T for his book. You can view the entire book online, but it
is worth the ~$10 to have the Cornell library print it out & give it a
hardcover ('library') binding. The quality of the printing they do is
outstanding.
Have Fun.
"Brett" <cauchy_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Quote: Hi,
I don't currently have access to a university library, or I'd browse
the stacks to find what I'm looking for. I am in need of a
trigonometry textbook. I am not interested in anything published in
the last 30 years. Does anyone know of a good, solid, old-school trig
book with the four-place table of sine/cosine/tan in the back, & a
discussion of spherical as well as plane trig? To re-iterate: anything
from Amazon is probably of no use to me. Thanks.
Brett |
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