Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson sat down with CBS correspondent Bill Whitaker to discuss their 'impossible' mathematical discovery in proving the Pythagorean Theorem. The TV series posted a ...

Let’s start with arguably the simplest fact about this new year: 2025 is a perfect square. It’s equal to 45 × 45, meaning that if we drew a big old square with side length 45 units, the total ...

In 2022, two high school students created a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—something that ... was a bonus question of a high school math contest… motivated by the $500 ...

Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted in ...

Two teenagers made significant strides in Mathematics after proving the Pythagorean Theorem with trigonometry ... blowing away the math community. However, the science news website Popular ...

NEW ORLEANS — The two women and St. Mary’s Academy graduates who used trigonometry to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem math equation, had their findings confirmed by the math ...

Although the Pythagorean theorem has been proved with algebra and geometry, mathematicians previously thought that it couldn’t be proved using trigonometry. That’s because the fundamentals in ...

The students started researching as part of a school-wide math contest with a challenging bonus question, which asked students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental ...

Louisiana students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson wowed their teachers in 2022 when they discovered a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean ... theorem works using algebra and geometry.

Two Black students continue to showcase their prowess in math. The young women from Louisiana have found nine more solutions to the Pythagorean theorem after discovering proof to the problem in a ...

Two teenagers found ten new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, debunking a century-old belief. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson were St. Mary’s Academy students in New Orleans and ...

Two years ago, a couple of high school classmates each composed a mathematical marvel, a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem ... a subset of geometry that deals with the relationships ...