As high school students, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson worked to find valid new proof for the 2,000-year-old theorem Two college freshmen who, during their final year of high school, found a new ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pythagoras Theorem Blackboard What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ...
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In their peer-reviewed work, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson present five new ways of proving Pythagoras' Theorem via trigonometry. They also detail a new method for finding proofs that yield at ...
The converse of the theorem says that if, \({a^2} = {b^2} + {c^2}\) then you have a right-angled triangle and furthermore, the right angle is directly opposite \(a\) (the hypotenuse). We can therefore ...
Ne’Kiya Jackson, left, and Calcea Rujean Johnson found the proof as part of a maths contest their school held for over the Christmas break (Picture: WWLTV) A pair of high school students in the US ...
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On November 26, 1949, Albert Einstein published an essay in the Saturday Review of Literature in which he described two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father ...