For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...

It's long been claimed impossible to use trigonometry to prove what is effectively a theorem that's fundamental to trigonometry. This falls into the logical fallacy of circular thinking by trying ...

Two American high school students have stunned mathematicians after they claimed that they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem by using trigonometry- a feat mathematicians thought ...

Two Black teenage girls from New Orleans could be the first mathematicians in at least 2000 years to find trigonometric proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.

Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting.

Two New Orleans high school students have proven the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry without relying on circular reasoning. That should be impossible.

Two New Orleans high school students have stunned mathematicians after claiming they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry - something academics have long thought to be impossible.

What began as a bonus question in a high school math contest has resulted in a staggering 10 new ways to prove the ancient mathematical rule of Pythagoras' theorem. "There are no trigonometric ...