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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.

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In 2022, two high school students created a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—something that’s only ever been accomplished by a few professional mathematicians. Now, a new article not ...

Hundreds of years before a Greek scholar outlined his proof of the Pythagorean theorem, ancient Chinese scholars proved it using just 17 characters, a renowned Chinese mathematician highlighted in a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The following converse of the Hilbert Syzygy Theorem is proved. Suppose K is a noetherian commutative ring with identity that has finite ...

Two teenagers made significant strides in Mathematics after proving the Pythagorean Theorem with trigonometry. Even better, the US youths provided nine solutions after presenting their previous one, ...

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