Pythagoras Would Be Proud: High School Students’ New Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem [TRIGONOMETRY]

Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson are two high school students at St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans who recently presented a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem at the Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting of the American Mathematical Society. There are, of course, many proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, but what sets this one apart is that it’s (mostly) trigonometric, but does not circularly rely on the Pythagorean identity. You can read the AMS abstract here (), and you can read more about these remarkable young women here (). Subscribe: | Enable ALL push notifications 🔔 There’s not a lot of information online yet about how their proof proceeds, but from a few of the slides you can pull out of news coverage (you can see de-skewed versions of three of them here: