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 ...
Yahoo

Black high school students solve math problem thought to be impossible for over 2,000 years

Two New Orleans high school students recently attended a conference where they proved an “impossible” math problem by using trigonometry. For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians worldwide have ...
Business Insider

2 high schoolers say they've found a proof for the Pythagorean theorem which mathematicians thought was impossible

Two US high schoolers believe they have cracked a mathematical mystery left unproven for centuries. Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson looked at the Pythagorean theorem, foundational to trigonometry.
Science Daily

Teens who made history with Pythagoras' theorem discovery publish their first academic paper with new proofs

In their peer-reviewed work, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson present five new ways of proving Pythagoras' Theorem via trigonometry. They also detail a new method for finding proofs that yield at ...
GIGAZINE

'Pythagorean theorem' was written on a clay tablet more than 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.

The Pythagorean Theorem is an ancient theory that states that in a right triangle, if the length of the hypotenuse is c, and the lengths of the two sides that sandwich the right angle are a and b, ...
EurekAlert!

Teens who made history with Pythagoras’ theorem discovery publish their first academic paper with new proofs

In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras’ theorem using trigonometry after entering a competition at ...