Proofs without words are generally pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true, and how one could begin to go about proving it. While in some ...

yet it is conversational and easy to absorb. Maybe the most important quality, it offers advice about how to approach problems, making it perfect for an introduction to proofs class.' Andrew McEachern ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published 10 trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, a feat thought impossible for 2,000 years.

NOVA: So the challenge was to rediscover Fermat's proof of the Last Theorem. Why did it become so famous? AW: Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so ...

So, when Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson came up with a solution, it sent shockwaves through the math world. They presented their proof a few months later at the American Mathematical Society ...

One of their proofs was previously presented at a conference and their new solutions were published Monday in the journal American Mathematical Monthly. They started studying the math problem as ...

Nevertheless, both Johnson and Jackson managed to solve the math problem independently of ... and a method that reveals five more proofs, totaling ten proofs altogether. Only one of these proofs ...