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Stonehenge isn’t the only henge to embrace the Pythagorean theorem. Woodhenge, which is about two miles northeast of its more famous counterpart, was constructed with a perfect 2:35:37 triangle.
Louisiana High School Seniors Say They Discovered a New Proof for 2,000-Year-Old Math Theorem Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson believe they can prove the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry ...
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 to the square of the longest leg, the hypotenuse, c.
Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson ...
When Calcea and Ne'Kiya set out to create a new Pythagorean Theorem proof, they didn't know that for thousands of years, one using trigonometry was thought to be impossible. In 2009, mathematician ...
Five or ten new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. American Mathematical Monthly. Published online October 28, 2024. doi: 10.1080/00029890.2024.2370240. N.D. Jackson and C.R. Johnson.
Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.