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Trigonometry is the branch of mathematics that studies relationships involving lengths of sides and amplitudes of angles in triangles. This field emerged in the Hellenistic world during the third century, by the hand of Euclid and Archimedes – who studied the properties of chords and inscribed angles in circles, while proving theorems equivalent to most modern trigonometric formulae; Hipparchus from Nicaea (Asia Minor) produced, however, the first tables of chords in 140 BCE – analogous to the current tables of sine values, which were completed in the second century CE by Greco‐Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy from Alexandria (Egypt). By those times, it was realized that the lengths of the sides of a right triangle and the angles between those sides satisfy fixed relationships; hence, if at least the length of one side and the amplitude of one angle is known, then all other angles and lengths can be algorithmically determined.