Law of Cosines/Also known as

Law of Cosines: Also known as

The Law of Cosines is also known as the Cosine Rule or Cosine Law.

It is known in France as Théorème d'Al-Kashi (Al-Kashi's Theorem) after Jamshīd al-Kāshī, who is believed to have first discovered it.


Sources

  • 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cosine rule (law of cosines): 1.
  • 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cosine rule (law of cosines): 1.
  • 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): cosine rule
  • 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): triangle (iii): The cosine rule
  • 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): triangle (iii): The cosine rule
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