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Who is the father of trigonometry?
Who is the father of trigonometry?
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The father of trigonometry is thought to have been Hipparchus. In the second century BC, the Greek mathematician Hipparchus made the discovery of trigonometry.
The first trigonometric table was apparently compiled by Hipparchus, who is consequently now known as “the father of trigonometry”.