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'Impossible' Proof of Pythagorean Theorem by Two High School Seniors [1]

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Date: 2024-10-28  

Here's an inspiring story I ran across on Live Science that I thought would be worth sharing, particularly for the math afficionados among us, and anyone who appreciated the movie Hidden Figures.

Most of us have probably at least heard of the Pythagorean Theorem that states that the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides in a right triangle are equal to the square of its longest side, the hypotenuse -- which is one of the foundational axioms of both Geometry and Trigonometry.

What's practically unheard of is actually trying to prove the theorem (in the mathematical sense) without resorting to any sort of circular reasoning, but that's precisely what these two remarkable young women, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, managed to do a couple of years ago when they were both high school seniors in Louisiana:

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