[BobL]

Let me guess, they also beat Bobby Fischer in Chess.

[telescope115]

I’m someone who couldn’t get past high school algebra, and I think what they did is just incredible.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Why is this old story being recycled?

[PGR88]

For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form of torture.

And Isaac Newton invented calculus to torture college students.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form of torture. So imagine our amazement when we heard two high school seniors had proved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for two thousand years.

Haven't the lying morons at CBS learned to at least use a web search to verify their outrageous stories? According to Wikipedia:

"The theorem has been proved numerous times by many different methods – possibly the most for any mathematical theorem."

[dadgum]

Maths be raaaaaycist.
Being on time is raaaaaycist.
Truth is raaaaaaaycist.

Uh huh.

[yesthatjallen]

Teens who solved 2,000-year-old math puzzle expand on their work in publication (2024)

There is no "2,000-year-old puzzle". No one bothered to look for a new solution because the old solution was elegantly perfect. Whatever they did was redundant.

[Organic Panic]

This is a recurring fraud that gets frequent reposts because the girls are black. They did no such magical mathematical wizardry. Their math “coaches” and the media simply ignore+what they have done has been done many times while changing the meaning of their challenge.

Bogus reasoning...

“the Law of Sines - and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1.”

Ech.

[NonValueAdded]

What’s missing from this equation? No one is applying peer pressure for them to stop acting white. God Bless this school.

[BFW]

We met Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson at their all-girls Catholic high school in New Orleans. And, as we first reported last year, we expected to find two mathematical prodigies.

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[TheThirdRuffian]

The PT has been proven about 30 different ways for centuries.

These “geniuses” looked something up on Grok.

[chuckee]

I always thought the late Zero Mostel invented the concept of zero while fiddling with the concept on a roof.

[KarlInOhio]

They proved it using trigonometry, which is tough because so much of trigonometry takes proof of the Pythagorean Theory as a given. If you use any part based on that your proof amounts to "assume a²+b²=c² is true", do a lot of math and finish with "and therefore a²+b²=c² is true". I haven't dug through their proof, but it looks like they must have avoided all parts of trigonometry based on that initial assumption.

[equaviator]

"the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry. You may remember it from high school: a² + b² = c²."

High school? WTF...That was 7th grade math for us over half a century ago.

[3RIVRS]

This again? They proved nothing that wasn’t already proven.

[The Great RJ]

Note they were students at an all girls Catholic school which obviously placed great value on learning and inspiring their students to achieve. I can’t imagine this achievement happening in any of our failure factory public schools where they indoctrinate not educate.

[Paal Gulli]

There are HUNDREDS of accepted proofs of the Pythagorean theorem. Just because somebody "discovered" yet another one means only that, another one, not that they solved, "a Problem That Stumped math World for Centuries."

[Paal Gulli]

In his 1928 book, The Pythagorean Proposition, Elisha Scott Loomis discussed 344 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem.

In the 21st Century, AI could find another new one every day that ends in a ‘Y,’ which begs the question, how many proofs do we need before we’re convinced?