Các hàm nghịch đảo có thể được ký hiệu là sin−1 hay cos−1 thay cho arcsin và arccos. Việc dùng ký hiệu mũ có thể gây nhầm lẫn với hàm mũ của hàm lượng giác.
Các hàm lượng giác nghịch đảo cũng có thể được định nghĩa bằng chuỗi vô hạn:
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{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\arcsin z&=&z+\left({\frac {1}{2}}\right){\frac {z^{3}}{3}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3}{2\cdot 4}}\right){\frac {z^{5}}{5}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3\cdot 5}{2\cdot 4\cdot 6}}\right){\frac {z^{7}}{7}}+\cdots \\&=&\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\left({\frac {(2n)!}{2^{2n}(n!)^{2}}}\right){\frac {z^{2n+1}}{(2n+1)}}\end{matrix}}\,\quad \left|z\right|<1}
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{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\arccos z&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-\arcsin z\\&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-(z+\left({\frac {1}{2}}\right){\frac {z^{3}}{3}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3}{2\cdot 4}}\right){\frac {z^{5}}{5}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3\cdot 5}{2\cdot 4\cdot 6}}\right){\frac {z^{7}}{7}}+\cdots )\\&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\left({\frac {(2n)!}{2^{2n}(n!)^{2}}}\right){\frac {z^{2n+1}}{(2n+1)}}\end{matrix}}\,\quad \left|z\right|<1}
arctan
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{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\arctan z&=&z-{\frac {z^{3}}{3}}+{\frac {z^{5}}{5}}-{\frac {z^{7}}{7}}+\cdots \\&=&\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{n}z^{2n+1}}{2n+1}}\end{matrix}}\,\quad \left|z\right|<1}
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{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\operatorname {arccsc} z&=&\arcsin \left(z^{-1}\right)\\&=&z^{-1}+\left({\frac {1}{2}}\right){\frac {z^{-3}}{3}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3}{2\cdot 4}}\right){\frac {z^{-5}}{5}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3\cdot 5}{2\cdot 4\cdot 6}}\right){\frac {z^{-7}}{7}}+\cdots \\&=&\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\left({\frac {(2n)!}{2^{2n}(n!)^{2}}}\right){\frac {z^{-(2n+1)}}{2n+1}}\end{matrix}}\,\quad \left|z\right|>1}
arcsec
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{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\operatorname {arcsec} z&=&\arccos \left(z^{-1}\right)\\&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-(z^{-1}+\left({\frac {1}{2}}\right){\frac {z^{-3}}{3}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3}{2\cdot 4}}\right){\frac {z^{-5}}{5}}+\left({\frac {1\cdot 3\cdot 5}{2\cdot 4\cdot 6}}\right){\frac {z^{-7}}{7}}+\cdots )\\&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\left({\frac {(2n)!}{2^{2n}(n!)^{2}}}\right){\frac {z^{-(2n+1)}}{(2n+1)}}\end{matrix}}\,\quad \left|z\right|>1}
arccot
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{\displaystyle {\begin{matrix}\operatorname {arccot} z&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-\arctan z\\&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-(z-{\frac {z^{3}}{3}}+{\frac {z^{5}}{5}}-{\frac {z^{7}}{7}}+\cdots )\\&=&{\frac {\pi }{2}}-\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }{\frac {(-1)^{n}z^{2n+1}}{2n+1}}\end{matrix}}\,\quad \left|z\right|<1}
Chúng cũng có thể được định nghĩa thông qua các biểu thức sau, dựa vào tính chất chúng là đạo hàm của các hàm khác.
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{\displaystyle \arcsin \left(x\right)=\int _{0}^{x}{\frac {1}{\sqrt {1-z^{2}}}}\,\mathrm {d} z,\quad |x|<1}
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{\displaystyle \arccos \left(x\right)=\int _{x}^{1}{\frac {1}{\sqrt {1-z^{2}}}}\,\mathrm {d} z,\quad |x|<1}
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{\displaystyle \arctan \left(x\right)=\int _{0}^{x}{\frac {1}{1+z^{2}}}\,\mathrm {d} z,\quad \forall x\in \mathbb {R} }
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {arccot} \left(x\right)=\int _{x}^{\infty }{\frac {1}{z^{2}+1}}\,\mathrm {d} z,\quad z>0}
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {arcsec} \left(x\right)=\int _{x}^{1}{\frac {1}{|z|{\sqrt {z^{2}-1}}}}\,\mathrm {d} z,\quad x>1}
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{\displaystyle \operatorname {arccsc} \left(x\right)=\int _{x}^{\infty }{\frac {-1}{|z|{\sqrt {z^{2}-1}}}}\,\mathrm {d} z,\quad x>1}
Công thức trên cho phép mở rộng hàm lượng giác nghịch đảo ra cho các biến số phức|phức:
arcsin
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{\displaystyle \arcsin(z)=-i\log \left(i\left(z+{\sqrt {1-z^{2}}}\right)\right)}
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{\displaystyle \arccos(z)=-i\log \left(z+{\sqrt {z^{2}-1}}\right)}
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{\displaystyle \arctan(z)={\frac {i}{2}}\log \left({\frac {1-iz}{1+iz}}\right)}
