Tuesday, 26 June 2018

trigonometry - Prove this trigonometric identity in quadrilateral



If α,β,γ,δ are angles in quadrilateral different from 90, prove the following:



tanα+tanβ+tanγ+tanδtanαtanβtanγtanδ=cotα+cotβ+cotγ+cotδ



I tried different transformations with using α+β+γ+δ=2π in equation above, but no success. Am I missing some not-so-well-known formula?


Answer



It follows directly from tan(α+β+γ+δ)=0 and the sum angle formula for tan (see here: Tangent sum using symmetric polynomials)




Using that formula we get (from numerator = 0) that



tanα+tanβ+tanγ+tanδ=



tanαtanβtanγ+tanαtanβtanδ+tanαtanγtanδ+tanβtanγtanδ



divididing by tanαtanβtanγtanδ gives the result.


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