Editing Hyperbolic functions (section)

== History ==
The first known calculation of a hyperbolic trigonometry problem is attributed to [[Gerardus Mercator]] when issuing the [[Mercator projection|Mercator map projection]] circa 1566. It requires tabulating solutions to a transcendental equation involving hyperbolic functions.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=George F. Becker |url=https://archive.org/details/hyperbolicfuncti027682mbp/page/n49/mode/2up?q=mercator |title=Hyperbolic Functions |last2=C. E. Van Orstrand |date=1909 |publisher=The Smithsonian Institution |others=Universal Digital Library}}</ref>

The first to suggest a similarity between the sector of the circle and that of the hyperbola was [[Isaac Newton]] in his 1687 [[Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica|''Principia Mathematica'']].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=McMahon |first=James |url=https://archive.org/details/hyperbolicfuncti031883mbp/page/n75/mode/2up |title=Hyperbolic Functions |date=1896 |publisher=John Wiley And Sons |others=Osmania University, Digital Library Of India}}</ref>

[[Roger Cotes]] suggested to modify the trigonometric functions using the [[imaginary unit]] <math>i=\sqrt{-1} </math> to obtain an oblate [[spheroid]] from a prolate one.<ref name=":0" />

Hyperbolic functions were formally introduced in 1757 by [[Vincenzo Riccati]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> Riccati used {{math|''Sc.''}} and {{math|''Cc.''}} ({{lang|la|sinus/cosinus circulare}}) to refer to circular functions and {{math|''Sh.''}} and {{math|''Ch.''}} ({{lang|la|sinus/cosinus hyperbolico}}) to refer to hyperbolic functions.<ref name=":0" /> As early as 1759, [[François Daviet de Foncenex|Daviet de Foncenex]] showed the interchangeability of the trigonometric and hyperbolic functions using the imaginary unit and extended [[de Moivre's formula]] to hyperbolic functions.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0" />

During the 1760s, [[Johann Heinrich Lambert]] systematized the use functions and provided exponential expressions in various publications.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4">Bradley, Robert E.; D'Antonio, Lawrence A.; Sandifer, Charles Edward. ''Euler at 300: an appreciation.'' Mathematical Association of America, 2007. Page 100.</ref> Lambert credited Riccati for the terminology and names of the functions, but altered the abbreviations to those used today.<ref name=":4" /><ref>Becker, Georg F. ''Hyperbolic functions.'' Read Books, 1931. Page xlviii.</ref>