This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...
About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...
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Two US high school girls rewrite 2,000 years of mathematics with a new Pythagorean proof once thought untouchable
For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...
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