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When was the birth of the trigonometric functions?
That's interesting. How have trigonometric functions evolved since then?
Trigonometry continued to develop in the centuries that followed, particularly in Islamic mathematics and then later in Europe during the Renaissance. In the 17th century, the revolutionary breakthrough in the development of trigonometry was the discovery of logarithms by the Scottish mathematician John Napier. This discovery greatly facilitated the calculation of sines, cosines, and tangents.