A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...

Pythagoras' theorem describes the relationship between the three sides of a right-angled triangle. It is incredibly useful for engineering and construction and was used by humans centuries before ...

In their new book, Hidden Harmonies, husband and wife mathematics team Robert and Ellen Kaplan pay tribute to that familiar formula you learned in high school math class.

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right ...

The Pythagorean Theorem is at least 2,500 years old, but we keep finding new ways to prove it.

In 2022, U.S. high school students Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson astonished teachers when they discovered a new way to prove Pythagoras' theorem using trigonometry after entering a ...

The famous ancient site at Stonehenge may have been built using Greek philosopher Pythagoras’ famous theorem two millennia before the mathematical equation was developed, experts say. A new book ...

Is your local Major League Baseball team better than its record suggests? Math researchers are considering alternatives to the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball, devised by baseball statistician ...

The Pythagorean theorem has baffled academics for 2,000 years but two high school students have reportedly solved the impossible.

However, it has become clear that the Pythagorean theorem was written on a clay tablet said to have been made in Babylonia more than 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.