A leading academic has highlighted China’s rich mathematical history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem.

Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem. While still in ...

"There are no trigonometric proofs because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth ...

"There are no trigonometric proofs because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean theorem," mathematician Elisha Loomis had written in 1927 ...

because the Pythagorean theorem, in case anyone needs a refresher ... They actually developed five proofs in total. CHANG: Wow, little overachievers. BARBER: Yeah. Calcea is particularly proud ...

The young women from Louisiana have found nine more solutions to the Pythagorean theorem after discovering proof to the problem in a way once considered impossible. The college students found this ...

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

So in 2022, two high school students shocked the math world by solving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry. And for doing this, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson earned keys to the city of New ...