Genius Teens Discover New Proofs for the Pythagorean Theorem

https://mymodernmet.com/teens-new-proof-pythagorean-theorem/

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #AfricanAmerican #Science #PythagoreanTheorem #BlackJoy #BlackGirlMagic #Tech #Technology #Math #Physics

"‘You Don’t See Kids Like Us Doing This’: Two Black Girls from New Orleans May Have Made History By Proving the Pythagorean Theorem Through Trigonometry

Two Black teens from New Orleans may have made mathematical history by proving the Pythagorean theorem by using trigonometry.

In a presentation at one of the nation’s most esteemed math societies, the girls claimed they’ve done something that no academic in the past 2,000 years has done.

Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson presented their findings at the American Mathematical Society’s Annual Southeastern Conference on Saturday, March 18."

#mathematics #trigonometry #PythagoreanTheorem #AmericanMathematicalSociety #NOLA #NOLAGirls

🔗: https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/03/27/two-black-girls-from-new-orleans-may-have-made-history-by-proving-pythagorean-theorem-through-trigonometry/

More small victories! I got my programmatic hinge-making (for 3d printing hinged dissections) working and printed a Pythagorean theorem demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_c8N_nJuUHE

(Hinge design is swiped from Laura " @mathgrrl " Taalman; many thanks!)

Working on some more simple bits of 3d printed dissection stuff; I should have more to show soon!

#3dprinting #pythagoreantheorem #hingeddissection #printedmath

@jentrification Very interesting. I looked for their proof, but I couldn't find it. The closest I came was this: https://i.imgur.com/NUPwN8k.jpeg

#PythagoreanTheorem

"US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem - New Orleans students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson recently presented their findings on the Pythagorean theorem

Two New Orleans high school seniors who say they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which academics for two millennia have thought to be impossible – are being encouraged by a prominent US mathematical research organization to submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal.

Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, who are students of St Mary’s Academy, recently gave a presentation of their findings at the American Mathematical Society south-eastern chapter’s semi-annual meeting in Georgia.

They were reportedly the only two high schoolers to give presentations at the meeting attended by math researchers from institutions including the universities of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana State, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas Tech. And they spoke about how they had discovered a new proof for the Pythagorean theorem."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove

#Maths #Mathematics #Pythagoras #PythagoreanTheorem #BIPOC #US

Ever since #trigonometry was discovered, mathematicians have maintained that any alleged proof of the #PythagoreanTheorem which uses trigonometry constitutes a logical fallacy known as circular reasoning. They were wrong 😁

US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem | #Mathematics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove

The Pythagorean Theorem is a lie!

This is so clever!

https://youtu.be/_cl1MUgcGoo

#PythagoreanTheorem
#LiesMyMathTeacherToldMe
#Mathtodon

RT @Nereide@twitter.com

In 4D space, #Pythagoreantheorem gives us the diagonal of a #hypercube (4D cube) or #tesseract.The theorem can be generalized to any arbitrary whole number dimension to apply to finding diagonals of n-dimensional rectangle analogs.
https://bit.ly/2Zyn0tu

#iteachmat #mtmschat

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Nereide/status/1158525411854299137

A link between basic #geometry and #trigonometry via the #PythagoreanTheorem

Here's a sequence of proofs that show how/why the #PythagoreanTheorem works

@stecks Lastly, (apologies for the overload!) here are some ideas/requests for other people who might be interested:

- some classics: #PythagoreanTheorem , #MandelbrotSet , or #E8

- emoji for when you're thinking hard (maybe the orb from the orb-ponderer meme?)

- emoji for when something you thought was hard was actually easy!

- emoji for when something you thought was easy was actually hard!