New Orleans math whizzes Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson were recognized during Essence Festival — and gifted new tech by AT&T’s Dream in Black initiative Janine Rubenstein / People It’s all adding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson being presented with the Key to the City of New Orleans by Mayor Cantrell. (CREDIT: Instagram / ...

Two black girls recently came up with a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry. Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson should be very proud of themselves. Their achievement should not be ...

The Pythagorean Theorem—discovered by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras in the 6th century BCE—is a cornerstone of mathematics. Simply stated as a 2 + b 2 = c 2, the theorem posits that the sum of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient ...

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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 ...

Two high school students proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought would be impossible: by using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both ...

Two years ago, a couple of high school classmates each composed a mathematical marvel, a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Now, they’re unveiling 10 more. For over 2,000 years, such ...

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 ...

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 ...