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True or false: the historical note

Exercise and reference answers

Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The study of trigonometry was first started in India.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The sine function reached mathematics through the siddhantas.
  3. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Trigonometry passed from India to Arabia and then to Europe.
  4. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    The Greeks never studied trigonometry at all.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    sin⁻¹ is also called the arc sine function.

Explanation

Straight from the Historical Note. Source: syllabus Maths Part I, Ch 2 Inverse Trigonometric Functions.
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