Driven by the demands of navigation and the growing need for accurate maps of large areas, trigonometry grew to be a major branch of mathematics. Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was the first to use the word, publishing his Trigonometria in 1595. Regiomontanus's table of sines and cosines was published in 1533.
Driven by the demands of navigation and the growing need for accurate maps of large areas trigonometry grew to be a major branch of mathematics. Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was the first to use the word publishing his Trigonometria in 1595. Regiomontanus's table of sines and cosines was published in 1533.