Math whizettes
High schoolers who uncovered ‘impossible’ proof of 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem find 9 new proofs in publication
Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson first made headlines in 2022 while still in high school when they came up with inventive solutions to a 2,000-year-old math problem. The two found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which mathematicians for decades thought was impossible. The 2,000-year-old theorem states that “the sum of the…
