Difference between revisions of "Cosine"

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$$y''=-y;y(0)=1,y'(0)=0.$$
 
$$y''=-y;y(0)=1,y'(0)=0.$$
  
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File:Cosine.png|Graph of $\cos$ on $\mathbb{R}$.
[[File:Complex cos.jpg|500px]]
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File:Complex cos.jpg|Domain coloring of analytic continuation of $\cos$ to $\mathbb{C}$.
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Revision as of 05:47, 31 October 2014

The cosine function, $\cos \colon \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is the unique solution of the second order initial value problem $$y=-y;y(0)=1,y'(0)=0.$$