Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their work began in a high school math contest.

Louisiana High School Seniors Say They Discovered a New Proof for 2,000-Year-Old Math Theorem Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson believe they can prove the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry ...

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.

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.

When Calcea and Ne'Kiya set out to create a new Pythagorean Theorem proof, they didn't know that for thousands of years, one using trigonometry was thought to be impossible. In 2009, mathematician ...

So in 2022, two high school students shocked the math world by solving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry. And for doing this, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson earned keys to the city of ...

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

While Johnson and Jackson were both familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem’s a² + b² = c² concept, the idea of coming up with a proof using only trigonometry was considered nearly impossible.

Discovered in the 5 th century B.C. by none other than Pythagoras himself, the Pythagorean Theorem (a 2 + b 2 = c 2) lies at the very foundations of trigonometry.