If you’ve ever heard the phrase “the music of the spheres,” your first thought probably wasn’t about mathematics. But in its historical origin, the music of the spheres actually was all about math. In ...
ROBERT P. CREASE is a professor in the philosophy department at Stony Brook University, a historian at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and a columnist for Physics World. This is adapted from an ...
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to show a triangle is right-angled or to find one side of a right-angled triangle when two sides are known. Make sure you are confident at substituting into and manipulating ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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Two American Teenage Girls Challenge 2,000 Years of Mathematics with a Groundbreaking Proof of Pythagoras’ Theorem
In an astonishing breakthrough, two young students from Louisiana have done what many thought was impossible: proving Pythagoras’ theorem using only trigonometry. Their discovery has rocked the world ...
If you have taken high school geometry, you have learned about the Pythagorean Theorem (even if you don’t remember it today). The theorem is an essential part of Euclidean geometry, and it goes as ...
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