Monday, 9 January 2017

trigonometry - Can all trigonometric expressions be written in terms of sine and cosine?



I know that sine and cosine can be rewritten in terms of the real and complex parts of the exponential function as a result of Euler's formula.



My question is, can every trigonometric expression be written in terms of elementary trigonometric functions (sin, cos)? If not, why couldn't they be?




I would think that they could, although I understand that sometimes it may be prohibitive to do so since most trig identities can be derived from Euler's formula. Are there any cases when a trig expression absolutely cannot be written in terms of the elementary functions?



The only potential counterexamples I could think of would include some non trigonometric terms or factors.



I know that hyperbolic sine and cosine can be rewritten in terms of sine and cosine in the complex plane.


Answer



tanθ=sinθcosθ



cotθ=cosθsinθ




secθ=1cosθ



cscθ=1sinθ



and since in the complex plane, we have



coshθ=icosiθsinhθ=isiniθtanhθ=itaniθcothθ=icotiθsechθ=iseciθcschθ=icsciθ



And thus you can continue the definitions of the hyperbolic functions by substituting the sine and cosine definitions of the the remaining 4 trigonometric functions.


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