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Two US high school girls rewrite 2,000 years of mathematics with a new Pythagorean proof once thought untouchable

For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its equation, a² + b² = c², is taught early and used widely, yet its implications ...
The New Yorker

Einstein’s Boyhood Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

On November 26, 1949, Albert Einstein published an essay in the Saturday Review of Literature in which he described two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father ...
Scientific American

2 High School Students Have Proved the Pythagorean Theorem. Here’s What That Means

Two high school students proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought would be impossible: by using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both ...