How High Schoolers Proved Pythagoras Using Just Trig (and some other stuff)

How did two high school students prove the Pythagorean Theorem using only trigonometry? This is a summary of the proof described in the article by The Guardian: "US teens say they have new proof for 2,000-year-old mathematical theorem: New Orleans students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson recently presented their findings on the Pythagorean theorem" 0:00 Math News 1:14 Proof Preview 2:00 The Proof 5:54 Final Thoughts Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove WWLTV report: /watch/UNeu1i4k1aKku AMS abstract: https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23621

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