Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson of Louisiana published a new study proving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, a feat mathematicians long thought could not be done
I wonder if it’s mainly because no one really tried, because it was already proven using two other forms of math that wasn’t trigonometry. Also, I don’t know how long the version of trigonometry they were using (sines) has been around. Before that it couldn’t have been proven, because generally trigonometry uses the pythagoreum theorem as its fundamental base, per the article.
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Well, hate to do this, but all the phrasing is in the past tense.
Considered, long thought, etc.
But, they created a NEW proof. And considering it took 2 thousand years for 2 others to do it…
So there is that.
I wonder if it’s mainly because no one really tried, because it was already proven using two other forms of math that wasn’t trigonometry. Also, I don’t know how long the version of trigonometry they were using (sines) has been around. Before that it couldn’t have been proven, because generally trigonometry uses the pythagoreum theorem as its fundamental base, per the article.