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Louisiana students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson wowed their teachers in 2022 when they discovered a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem in response to a bonus question in a high school math contest. But that was only the beginning. A volunteer at their former school, New Orleans’ St. Mary’s Academy, encouraged them to submit their work on the famous mathematical theory to a professional conference, and in March 2023 they became the youngest people to present at the American Mathematical Society’s Southeastern Sectional conference in Atlanta. Their appearance elicited a wave of media coverage, including a spot on “60 Minutes.” The pair also received symbolic keys to the city of New Orleans and a shout-out from Michelle Obama. Now Jackson and Johnson, who started college last year, have notched another achievement: authoring an academic paper detailing their original proof — plus nine more. Their work published Monday in the scientific journal American Mathematical Monthly. Experts described Jackson and Johnson’s approach as particularly challenging because trigonometry as a field is essentially based on Pythagoras’ theorem; thus using trigonometry to prove the theorem typically requires what mathematicians call “circular reasoning.” However, the new proofs aren’t circular, according to the study. “None of the theorems we use in our proofs … have already assumed the Pythagorean theorem to be true,” the authors wrote in the paper. Tom Murdoch, an honorary professor at the University of Bristol’s School of Mathematics in the United Kingdom, described the study as “impressive.” “I think what’s intriguing about it (this study) is that a lot of people thought it was impossible,” he said. “Trigonometric functions are based on sine and cosine, which are expressed as ratios of certain lengths of a right-angled triangle. It’s quite easy to get into a circular argument, and what’s so appealing about this is they found a line of argument using sine and cosine that doesn’t assume Pythagoras is true,” he added. Jackson and Johnson’s study outlines five new ways of proving the theorem using trigonometry, and their method reveals five more proofs for 10 total. The pair presented only one of the proofs at the 2023 conference, meaning that nine are totally new. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/29/science/teens-pythagorean-theorem-study

Enjoy it. You lose.

You must not have much going on in your life. Seriously.

I'm just glad Trump won.

Didn't think of that. Good call. Normally these articles are flooded with minority praising.

I'm ecstatic. Trump 2024. Democrats got trounced.

Free the political prisoners!!

He'll pardon them. They saved American elections and are all heroes. Your dumbass liberal press just won't report it. Liberals are so uninformed in life.

You do nothing.

Jimmy Kimmel.

No one knows why you defend Biden. Ask your therapist.

Why do you always have to bring up the obvious stuff that the left desires to overlook?

One can stab people quietly and discreetly, guns makes noise usually.

Depending on the size of your family and if what you did in the fray was take a podium home with you, then yeah. Minus the cost of the podium. Give Nancy a backhanded apology and a middle finger.

Another liberal trying to change the thread topic because he's lost.

Trump is the man!!

What color/culture were the stabbers in these murders?

Yeah. Scum is the right word. Nice.

It shouldn't matter if one is worse than the other in your mind. Guns aren't the topic here. It's knives.

What would you expect if you did a minor infraction for a good cause and was thrown in jail for 4 years?

3 people stabbed to death and a liberal pops up to whine about gun laws. WTF? What do you expect from these people?

It varies by person just like salaries do.

Lost wages, legal fees, medical fees, pain and suffering. Free Netflix for life.

This is a terrible take. You are really focked up in the head.

Trump is a winner.