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High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem

Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting. When you ...
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A Short Proof of McDougall’s Circle Theorem

https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.03.263 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.121.03.263 Copy URL ...
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High school students who came up with 'impossible' proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

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 you ...
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Circle theorems - Higher - OCR

AO and OC are both radii of the circle. Length AO = Length OC Draw the line OB. It creates two triangles OCB and OAB. These share the length OB.
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Module 2 (M4) - Geometry and measures - Circle theorems

Circle theorems are properties that are true for all circles, regardless of their size. There are six theorems to learn and recognise. Questions can have a combination of theorems. It is important to ...
Scientific American

2 High School Students Have Proved the Pythagorean Theorem. Here’s What That Means

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, both at ...
Metro

Pair of teens may have found proof for 2,500-year-old Pythagoras’ theorem

Ne’Kiya Jackson, left, and Calcea Rujean Johnson found the proof as part of a maths contest their school held for over the Christmas break (Picture: WWLTV) A pair of high school students in the US ...