Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs
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As high school students, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson worked to find valid new proof for the 2,000-year-old theoremTwo college freshmen who, during their final year of high school, found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which mathematicians for generations thought was impossible – have since uncovered multiple more such proofs, they revealed in a national interview on Sunday.“We found five, and then we found a general format that could potentially produce at...

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