This was thought to be an impossible feat. Two young students from New Orleans claimed to have proven the Pythagorean Theorem, something that has stumped experts for 2,000 years. These high schoolers, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, were able to present their findings to researchers and talk about their work with local TV.
The theorem was difficult to prove because it underpins trigonometry. You can’t exactly use it if you don’t accept that these ideas are correct. The teenagers state that the claim written in the book The Pythagorean Proposition, which said that there are no proofs for the theorem as they are based upon the truth isn’t quite true.
Johnson and Jackson proved the theorem using the Law of Sines. Their claim has not been confirmed by other experts in the field yet. However, they are encouraged to publish their findings in a journal where they can undergo the academic peer-review process.
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