In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last Theorem, a central problem in number theory that had remained open ...

Discovered in the 5 th century B.C. by none other than Pythagoras himself, the Pythagorean Theorem (a 2 + b 2 = c 2) lies at the very foundations of trigonometry.That’s why it was particularly ...

The Pythagorean Theorem is (a2 + b2 = c2), which states that the sum of the two shortest sides of a right triangle is equal to that triangle’s longest side. Article continues after this ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption.

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. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Instead, the pair of students used a trigonometric rule called the Law of Sines, which does not rely on the Pythagorean theorem. Two people had previously proved the theorem using trigonometry ...

Students who made math history when they were in high school have now published new ways of proving the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry. Latest U.S.

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.

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 ...

Black Students Who Discovered ‘Impossible’ Proof Of Pythagorean Theorem Develop 9 More Solutions. In 2022, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson were able to prove that trigonometry can prove the ...

Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson from Louisiana blew the math community away when they presented a solution to the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, an impossible feat for 2,000 years ...