2 New Orleans teenagers say they proved the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 30, 2023
The high schoolers presented their theory at a national mathematics conference.
March 30, 2023, 3:54 PM ET
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Two Black teenage girls from New Orleans say they could be the first mathematicians in at least 2,000 years to find trigonometric proof for the Pythagorean Theorem.
"After we get it peer reviewed and if it is approved, we would publish it in an undergraduate journal," Calcea Johnson, one of the high school mathematicians, said. "And then it would be cemented in, pretty much, the math world . . .
