Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students.

A cable is attached, 30 metres above ground level, to a post. The other end of the cable is 14 metres from the base of the post. Regulations state that the cable must measure less than 35 metres. If A ...

Everyone knows that A² + B² = C², but can you prove it? There are at least 88 ways to do it. Here’s my personal favorite. The Pythagorean Theorem is known by anyone who has taken basic geometry. In a ...

Learn about the Pythagorean theorem. The Pythagoras theorem is a fundamental relation among the three sides of a right ...

Two New Orleans high school students recently attended a conference where they proved an “impossible” math problem by using trigonometry. For more than 2,000 years, mathematicians worldwide have ...

Catherine Scarlett responds to an article about US teenagers who claim to have proved the theorem using trigonometry While it is heartening to see enthusiastic mathematical inquiry in young people and ...

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 ...

Let's explore how the Pythagorean theorem was known and applied in India centuries before Pythagoras, highlighting a poetic geometry problem from Bhāskara II’s Līlāvatī. It traces the theorem’s ...