March 22, 2023 — It takes a special kind of student to outsmart 2,000 years of mathematicians — at St. Mary’s Academy, they have two.
Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson just gave a presentation at the American Mathematical Society’s Annual Southeastern Conference. What they were able to do is find a way to prove the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry without circular logic – something mathematicians have been trying to do for nearly 2,000 years.