The student's discoveries were confirmed by the math community this week after their proofs were published in the American ...
Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community ...
Finally, they achieved their goal: a proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry ... achievement but also the significance of their identities as two high school students and African ...
Yet proving it using trigonometry was long thought impossible, as the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are based upon the assumption that the Pythagorean Theorem is true—an example of ...
Using a trigonometry rule called the Law of Sines, the students showed that the "proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity sin2x + cos2x = 1." In their published paper, the duo stated ...
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. They ...