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Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson created a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 2023, "a great mathematical achievement."
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Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson created a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 2023, "a great mathematical achievement."
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Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson of Louisiana gave a presentation at the American Mathematical Society's Annual Southeastern Conference.
At an American Mathematical Society meeting, high school students presented a proof of the Pythagorean theorem that used trigonometry—an approach that some once considered impossible