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@vnikolov@ieji.de @davidsuculum@mathstodon.xyz Sure, it arrived much later in Europe, but so did the concept of zero and the positional (decimal) number system. Arguably, the Indian/Arabic numbers had an even larger influence on the development of mathematics than trigonometry. I think there was some early work on trigonometry in both the Babilonian and Arab world as well, but the actual full development happened in India.