Two High Schoolers Found an 'Impossible' Proof for a 2,000-Year-Old Math Rule—Then, They Discovered Nine More | Smithsonian Magazine
Two High Schoolers Found an 'Impossible' Proof for a 2,000-Year-Old Math Rule—Then, They Discovered Nine More | Smithsonian Magazine
www.smithsonianmag.com Two High Schoolers Found an 'Impossible' Proof for a 2,000-Year-Old Math Rule—Then, They Discovered Nine More
Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson of Louisiana published a new study proving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, a feat mathematicians long thought could not be done
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Upvoting but not reading it because I probably won’t even understand.
I read it. Doesn't talk about the actual proof all too much, but more about how it came to them even attending the proof. It's an easy read, but you didn't miss out on anything important.
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