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Why doesn't ArcTan[Tan[a]] get "a"?

Posted 7 months ago

Hello,

In Mathematica,

ArcTan[Tan[Pi/6]]

will produce Pi/6.

But

FullSimplify@ArcTan[Tan[\[Theta]]]

only produces

ArcTan[Tan[\[Theta]]]

What is the problem of the latter?

POSTED BY: Zhenyu Zeng
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The equality

ArcTan[Tan[\[Theta]]] == \[Theta]

is true only when -Pi/2 < \[Theta] < Pi/2:

Simplify[ArcTan[Tan[\[Theta]]],
 -Pi/2 < \[Theta] < Pi/2]
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
Posted 7 months ago

May you tell why this works?

POSTED BY: Zhenyu Zeng

Try

ArcTan[Tan[Pi/6 + Pi]]
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni
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