The sides of right-angled triangles are labelled opposite, hypotenuse and adjacent. Trigonometry explores the relationship between sides and angles in right-angled triangles. The hypotenuse is the ...

Most trigonometry students look at triangles on a flat surface. However, people from ancient astronomers to modern navigators calculated the arc lengths and angles of triangles on a sphere. They used ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson of Louisiana published a new study proving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, a ...

High school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson did something in 2023 that most mathematicians had thought impossible ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their ...

Two teenagers found ten new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, debunking a century-old belief.

What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient ...

Luckily, triangles survived nonetheless—and thrived. In “Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World,” Matt Parker recounts, for instance, how computers were a “game-changer in the ...

The student's discoveries were confirmed by the math community this week after their proofs were published in the American ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published 10 trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, a feat thought impossible for 2,000 years.

Two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, one of mathematics' most fundamental ...