In an extraordinary achievement that has stunned the global mathematics community, two high school students from Louisiana ...

Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean ... hypotenuse). Mathematicians had long thought ...

Taking the triangle DEG, Pythagoras’ theorem can be used to calculate the length of EG. EG is the hypotenuse so should ... of the right-angled triangle is given a different letter, 𝒚. 𝒚 ...

What it means is that in a right triangle (where one angle equals 90°), the sum of the squares of two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side).