By extending the scope of a key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

Two Louisiana students have found a proof to a theorem that has shaken the foundations of mathematics.

Learning with TOI News: The Pythagorean theorem, a cornerstone of mathematics for millennia, provides a method for determining unknown sides in right-angled triangles using t ...

A University of Tartu student has come up with a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem using origami. While folding paper is already used — even in basic school — to demonstrate the well-known ...

THE interesting communication from Major MacMahon on the above subject reminds me of a proof which I discovered over the chessboard a few years ago, of the well-known fact, that if the lengths of ...

IT may not be generally known that the Theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid I. 47, is closely connected with the Theory of Repeating Patterns in space of two dimensions. The simplest proof by dissection ...

Pythagoras (570-500 BC) was born on the island of Samos in what is now Greece. On the advice of Thales of Miletus, he travelled to Memphis in Egypt where he came into contact with priests renowned ...

The Pythagorean theorem is one of the most fundamental and familiar results in mathematics. There are scores of different proofs of the theorem, and in this article we provide a history and overview ...

For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a purely trigonometric proof of Pythagoras’ theorem was impossible. But two high school students from Louisiana may have just changed that. Their ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — 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 ...