De Moivre's Formula - Formulas For Cosine and Sine Individually

Formulas For Cosine and Sine Individually

See also: List of trigonometric identities

Being an equality of complex numbers, one necessarily has equality both of the real parts and of the imaginary parts of both members of the equation. If x, and therefore also cos x and sin x, are real numbers, then the identity of these parts can be written using binomial coefficients. This formula was given by 16th century French mathematician Franciscus Vieta:

In each of these two equations, the final trigonometric function equals one or minus one or zero, thus removing half the entries in each of the sums. These equations are in fact even valid for complex values of x, because both sides are entire (that is, holomorphic on the whole complex plane) functions of x, and two such functions that coincide on the real axis necessarily coincide everywhere. Here are the concrete instances of these equations for n = 2 and n = 3:

\begin{alignat}2 \cos(2x) &= (\cos{x})^2 +((\cos{x})^2-1) &&= 2(\cos{x})^2-1\\ \sin(2x) &= 2(\sin{x})(\cos{x})\\ \cos(3x) &= (\cos{x})^3 +3\cos{x}((\cos{x})^2-1) &&= 4(\cos{x})^3-3\cos{x}\\ \sin(3x) &= 3(\cos{x})^2(\sin{x})-(\sin{x})^3 &&= 3\sin{x}-4(\sin{x})^3.\\ \end{alignat}

The right hand side of the formula for cos(nx) is in fact the value Tn(cos x) of the Chebyshev polynomial Tn at cos x.

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