The Guardian

Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs

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 ...
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Two teens created groundbreaking trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...
NPR

An old tadpole, new Pythagorean Theorem proof and how fruit may have affected evolution

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption. All ...
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AI is changing how mathematicians solve problems and write proofs

DeepMind’s AlphaProof system solved four out of six problems at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, generating ...

Gerd Faltings, mathematician who proved the Mordell conjecture, wins the Abel Prize at age 71

This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of ...
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Two teens created groundbreaking trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson being presented with the Key to the City of New Orleans by Mayor Cantrell. (CREDIT: Instagram / ...