A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right ...

The sides of right-angled triangles are labelled opposite, hypotenuse and adjacent. Trigonometry explores the relationship between sides and angles in right-angled triangles. The hypotenuse is the ...

In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry after entering a competition at ...

Trigonometry is the branch of math that studies triangles, with a particular focus on the relationships between angles and the lengths of corresponding sides. Interestingly enough, the trigonometric ...

In the 1930s, a mathematician by the name of Nicolas Bourbaki was said to frequent the Café Capoulade in Paris, a haven for artists and intellectuals near Luxembourg Gardens. There he wrote an ...

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