US Teens Discover New Proof For The Pythagoras' Theorem, Stun Mathematicians The students said they can prove the theorem by using trigonometry and without circular reasoning. Edited by: Ritu ...

In 2022, two high school students created a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—something that’s only ever been accomplished by a few professional mathematicians. Now, a new article ...

“In the 2,000 years since trigonometry was discovered it’s always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular,” the teenage authors ...

Both girls created different, but similar, proofs that disproved the accepted thinking that since trigonometry (the study of triangles) is itself based on the Pythagorean Theorem, any theory that ...

Two New Orleans high school students have stunned mathematicians after claiming they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry - something academics have long thought to be ...