Is sin(x) necessarily irrational where x is rational?

If $\sin x$ is rational (or even just algebraic), then $\cos x=\pm \sqrt{1-\sin^2 x}$ is algebraic. Therefore $e^{ix}=\cos x+i\sin x$ is algebraic, so by the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem, $x$ cannot have been nonzero algebraic -- in particular not nonzero rational.


In fact each of $\cos x$, $\sin x$, and $\tan x$ are irrational at non-zero rational values of the arguments. This result is Theorem 2.5 and Corollary 2.7 in Ivan Niven's Irrational Numbers.