However, this in turn means that they were familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem – or, at the very least, with its special case for the diagonal of a square (d 2 = a 2 + a 2 = 2a 2) – more ...

The Pythagorean Theorem troubled the devoted followers of the Greek philosopher, who built a worldview based on numbers.

2 New Orleans teenagers say they proved the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem The high schoolers presented their theory at a national mathematics conference.

The 2,000 year-old theorem states that the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equivalent to the square on the hypotenuse, or the longest side of a right triangle.

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.

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

Divide this figure into three parts that can be arranged into a square. The parts must not be folded over to make their current back the front, they must not overlap, and there must not be any ...