See also their abstract:
"An Impossible Proof Of Pythagoras"
Ne’Kiya D Jackson and Calcea Rujean Johnson, 2023
https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23621
And news reports at the time:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove
“How The Square Root Of 2 Became A Number”, Quanta (https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-square-root-of-2-became-a-number-20240621/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40750230
#Numbers #IrrationalNumbers #Mathematics #Maths #PythagorasTheorem #Dedekind #Cantor #History #Reals #Irrationals
Two Black Girls from New Orleans May Have Made History By Proving the Pythagorean Theorem Through Trigonometry
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove
This would be so cool, if these two girls have really done it!
#Maths
Have two US teens found proof for 2,000-year-old #PythagorasTheorem? | ITV News
https://www.itv.com/news/2023-03-27/have-two-us-teenagers-found-proof-for-2000-year-old-pythagoras-theorem
