This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. For many high school students returning to class this month, it may seem like geometry ...

something most of us will have become acutely aware of when high school geometry drummed the Pythagorean theorem into our ...

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 ...

That bonus question asked students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry, using trigonometry. The teachers weren't necessarily expecting anyone to ...

Man Teaches Math to Struggling Stranger on Subway Ride: 'They Left Each Other with a Gift' The Pythagorean Theorem states that three sides of a right-angled triangle can be expressed by the ...

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 ...

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 American teenagers have challenged centuries-old math conventions by developing new trigonometric proofs for the Pythagorean theorem, stirring excitement in the academic world. Calcea Johnson ...

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 ...