As high school students, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson worked to find valid new proof for the 2,000-year-old theorem Two college freshmen who, during their final year of high school, found a new ...

Two New Orleans students who solved the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry have had their discovery confirmed by the math community after their findings were published in the American Mathematical ...

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a 2 + b 2 = c 2. Remember that from high school math class? That's the Pythagorean theorem, which shows that in a right triangle, where the shorter legs are a and b, the sum of their squares is equal ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson believe they can prove the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry — and are being encouraged to submit their work for peer review Jason Hahn is a former Human ...

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A recent discovery suggests the Pythagorean theorem could be the world's oldest known case of plagiarism. The ancient Greek philosopher, born in 570 BC, is credited for creating the math that helps ...

Catherine Scarlett responds to an article about US teenagers who claim to have proved the theorem using trigonometry While it is heartening to see enthusiastic mathematical inquiry in young people and ...

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" Pythagorean theorem (Mikigata's Theorem)" was discovered by Pitagoras, an ancient Greek mathematician born in 570 BC, but the builder of the British ruins " Stonehenge" was more than 2000 years of ...