A leading academic has highlighted China’s rich mathematical history, including a startling fact about a well-known theorem.

In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.

The student's discoveries were confirmed by the math community this week after their proofs were published in the American ...

Proofs in mathematics are a series of mathematical sequences that show an assertion to be true or false. The Pythagorean theorem, a2 + b2 = c2, says the square of a right triangle’s hypotenuse (the ...

to create a proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, demonstrating that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson from Louisiana used trigonometry to prove the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem, which ...

Johnson and her classmate, Ne'Kiya Jackson, took on the challenge of a bonus question: to create a proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, demonstrating that the square of the hypotenuse ...

But it wasn't. The 2,000 year-old theorem states that the sum of the squares on the legs of a right triangle is equivalent to the square on the hypotenuse, or the longest side of a right triangle.

(Unsplash) Pythagoras' theorem, summarised by the equation a2+b2=c2, describes the relationship between the sides of a right-angled triangle, where the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum ...

The research produced five complete, novel proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, with the potential for at least five more using their developed method. Each proof uses different geometric constructions ...