rajivsethi
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03 May 23
About six weeks ago, Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson gave a talk at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society in which they presented a new trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. This was remarkable for two reasons—trigonometric proofs of this theorem were once thought to be impossible, and the two students were teenagers still in high school.