"[T]he invention of the infinitesimal calculus... foreshadowed the speedy end of trigonometry as an independent and growing branch of mathematics... By the end of the eighteenth century Leonhard Euler and others had exhibited all the theorems of trigonometry as corollaries of complex function theory."

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