James McMahon

Hyperbolic Functions James McMahon

This compendium of hyperbolic trigonometry was first published as a chapter in Merriman and Woodward's Higher Mathematics. There is reason to believe that it supplies a need, being adapted to two or three different types of readers. College students who have had elementary courses in trigonometry, analytic geometry, and differential and integral calculus, and who wish to know something of the hyperbolic trigonometry on account of its important and historic relations to each of those branches, will, it is hoped, find these relations presented in a simple and comprehensive way in the first half of the work. Readers who have some interest in imaginaries are then introduced to the more general trigonometry of the complex plane, where the circular and hyperbolic functions merge into one class of transcendents, the singly periodic functions, having either a real or a pure imaginary period. For those who also wish to view the subject in some of its practical relations, numerous applications have been selected so as to illustrate the various parts of the theory, and to show its use to the physicist and engineer, appropriate numerical tables being supplied for these purposes.