The bunkbed conjecture says that the probability of finding the path on the bottom bunk is always greater than or equal to ...

These two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, one of mathematics’ most fundamental ...

NEW ORLEANS — A high school math contest has turned into a history-making event thanks to a pair of young girls. These two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, ...

authoring an academic paper detailing their original proof — plus nine more. Their work published Monday in the scientific journal American Mathematical Monthly. “I’m so surprised that we ...

In their peer-reviewed work, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson present five new ways of proving Pythagoras' Theorem via trigonometry. They also detail a new method for finding proofs that yield at ...

Yale’s Sam Raskin has solved a major portion of a math question that could lead to a translation theory for some areas of math.

Black Girl Magic took over in Louisiana as Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Johnson cracked a math problem that had stumped scholars for ages. Both girls published a study proving the Pythagorean Theorem ...

Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community again with nine completely new solutions to the problem. While still in ...

In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to ...

One of their proofs was previously presented at a conference and their new solutions were published Monday in the journal American Mathematical Monthly. They started studying the math problem as ...