For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

A Theorem Tested Through Time For over 2,000 years, Pythagoras’ theorem has stood as one of the cornerstones of mathematics. It states that in a right-angled triangle, the sum of the squares of ...

Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras It predates Pythagoras by over 1,000 years.

Pythagoras' theorem describes the relationship between the three sides of a right-angled triangle. It is incredibly useful for engineering and construction and was used by humans centuries before ...

Mathematician Jordan Ellenberg answers the internet's burning questions about geometry. How are new shapes still being discovered? Where are we using Pythagorean theorem in real life? How many ...

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.

Recently a CBS 60 Minutes Sunday episode highlighted two young girls from a New Orleans high school who had created a trigonometry solution to the Pythagorean theorem, PT.

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson presented their new findings on the Pythagorean theorem to the American Mathematical Society last week.