Publications
Pritchard, Kailyn. Determining the Sine Tables Underlying Early European Tangent Tables, In Matthieu Husson, Clemency Montelle and Benno van Dalen (Eds.), TAMAS Volume, to appear (2020).
Supplemental materials available here.
Pritchard, Kailyn. The Emergence of the Tangent Function in European Trigonometry (Unpublished undergraduate senior thesis). Quest University Canada, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. (5 May 2019)
Conferences and presentations
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics — June 2019
Annual Meeting, Special Session: Mathematical Astronomy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
“Determining the sine tables underlying early European tangent tables.”
Keystone Symposium — May 2019
Quest University Canada, Squamish, BC
“The Birth of the Tangent.”
Video available here.
BC Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference — April 2019
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
“Determining the sine tables underlying early European tangent tables.”
PAL & ALFA Workshop 2018— November 2018
Pre-Modern Astronomical and Astrological Data in Tabular Form:
Storage, Edition and Mathematical Analysis
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany
“Determining the sine tables underlying early European tangent tables.”