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Pythagoras' famous 2,000-year-old theorem, summarized neatly as a2 + b2= c2, means that you can work out the length of any side of a right-angled triangle as long as you know the length of the ...
2 ημέρες πριν · Calcea Johnson, an LSU environmental engineering sophomore, has achieved a milestone few undergraduates reach: publication in The American Mathematical Monthly, one of the field’s most respected journals. Johnson and her former high school classmate Ne’Kiya Jackson discovered a new way to prove Pythagorean’s Theorem using trigonometry as part of a high school math contest.
5 ημέρες πριν · Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published 10 trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, a feat thought impossible for 2,000 years.
6 ημέρες πριν · In her spare time she loves to play billiards, watch anime and read manga. Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA 70125 nekiyajackson@icloud.com. Calcea Johnson. ... —one for each proof—make it clear that its author E. Loomis believed this was the only legitimate way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem, ...
In their peer-reviewed work, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson present five new ways of proving Pythagoras’ Theorem via trigonometry They also detail a new method for finding proofs that yield at least five more In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove […]
Johnson and Jackson propose that their proof, utilizing the Law of Sines, establishes the well-trodden a^2+b^2=c^2 without falling back on the Pythagorean trigonometric identity sin2 (x)+cos2 (x)=1.
10 Απρ 2023 · Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson...
