Jost Bürgi's \textit{artificium} of 1586 in modern view, an ingenious algorithm for calculating tables of the sine function

DOI10.4171/EM/304zbMath1378.01005MaRDI QIDQ509109

Jörg Waldvogel

Publication date: 8 February 2017

Published in: Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmdifference methodKunstweg\textit{artificium}sine tables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

Related Items (3)

Jost Bürgi's methods of calculating sines, and possible transmission from India ⋮ How Bürgi computed the sines of all integer angles simultaneously in 1586 ⋮ Zigzags with Bürgi, Bernoulli, Euler and the Seidel-Entringer-Arnol'd triangle

Cites Work

• Jost Bürgi's method for calculating sines
• How Bürgi computed the sines of all integer angles simultaneously in 1586
• Jost Bürgi and the discovery of the logarithms

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