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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries

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Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

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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This happened a while ago, and even more uplifting is Ne’Kiya Jackson got into college by doing this!

https://www.xula.edu/news//2023/08/making-the-impossible-possible-nekiya-jackson-who-submitted-proof-of-impossible-mathematical-equation-will-be-attending-xavier-university-of-louisiana.html

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