Well, that's a nice proof! I struggled with good proofs of this theorem for
a long while before I found the derivative proof, but I'm not wedded to it,
and I agree that your proof approach is much more simple and direct. I'm
not sure how I missed it. You should contribute it!

Mario


On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 11:54 PM Thomas Brendan Leahy <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I can't help but notice pige3 is shown in a very convoluted way, when it
> (in fact a slightly stronger statement) can be seen to follow quickly from
> sincos6thpi (which is indirectly used in the proof), sinltx, and a bit of
> arithmetic.  It seems like this is meant to preserve the geometric
> character of the approach, using Lipschitz continuity as a sort of analytic
> version of Euclid's first postulate, but I'm not sure that actually
> accomplishes that any better; after all, if you were to ask the layperson
> what a sine was, they'd give you a geometric answer, and there are a lot of
> situations in geometry (starting with corners) where this approach wouldn't
> work.
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