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In this article the author addresses the origins of trigonometry and the idea of limits. The concept of ‘limit’ is crucial in the development of integral calculus, the subject which deals with the measurements of lengths, areas and volumes of general figures. What emerges is that the roots of trigonometry and integral calculus are already implicit in the early geometrical studies.
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Paranjape, K.H. Geometry. Reson 1, 26–31 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02835696
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02835696