Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting. When you ...
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Two American Teenage Girls May Have Cracked a 2,000-Year-Old Math Puzzle With a Stunning New Pythagoras Proof
For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...
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