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Pythagoras theorem
These high school seniors may have found a new proof for a 2,000-year-old math theorem
The Annual Southeastern Conference of the American Mathematical Society featured a presentation by teenagers, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson; who succeeded in proving the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry without the use of circular logic – which mathematicians have been attempting to do for almost two thousand years. The two geniuses were reportedly the only high…
