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Two New Orleans high school students have proven the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry without relying on circular reasoning. That should be impossible.
US Teens Discover New Proof For The Pythagoras' Theorem, Stun Mathematicians The students said they can prove the theorem by using trigonometry and without circular reasoning.
Two Black students continue to showcase their prowess in math. The young women from Louisiana have found nine more solutions to the Pythagorean theorem after discovering proof to the problem in a ...
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.
A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.
Learning with TOI News: Trigonometric identities are powerful tools for simplifying complex equations in math and science. Three core groups—reciprocal, quotient, and Pythago ...
Teenagers Publish Trigonometric Proof Of Pythagoras’ Theorem Once Considered Impossible Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson have added four further novel proofs of the theorem that had also not ...
Using a trigonometry rule called the Law of Sines, the students showed that the "proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity sin2x + cos2x = 1." ...
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 a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.