This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...
In an astonishing breakthrough, two young students from Louisiana have done what many thought was impossible: proving ...
The hypotenuse will reach diagonally between these two sides. Loomis believed that if you used these functions in a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, you would have assumed the theorem to begin with—a ...