Starting next year, more STEM majors in community colleges will be enrolled directly into calculus, skipping prerequisites, ...

Students from Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South high schools earned grade class honors in this year’s Rose-Hulman High School Mathematics Competition conducted on campus Nov. 9. West Vigo and ...

Over the years, many mathematicians have tried to prove the theorem using algebra and geometry but using trigonometry was ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption.

Two young women from New Orleans who amazed mathematicians two years ago by coming up with a new trigonometric proof of the 2 ...

Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published a paper on a new way to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean theorem. Their ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways ...

For centuries, mathematicians have sought various ways to prove this theorem using algebra and geometry. However, attempts to approach it through trigonometry were often deemed impossible.

Prior knowledge needed: Undergraduate level physics, Undergraduate level calculus such (e.g. manipulating integrals and derivatives, trigonometry and linear algebra, engineering problem solving skills ...

Many mathematicians over the years have explained why the theorem works using algebra and geometry. In contrast, Jackson and Johnson were able to prove it using trigonometry — a subbranch of ...

Two young mathematicians, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, made headlines with a groundbreaking discovery in mathematics.