re: New Orleans East teens make 'impossible' mathematical discovery unproven for 2,000 years

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson just gave a presentation to the American Mathematical Society's Annual Southeastern Conference. They say they've proved Pythagoras' Theorem can be proven without trigonometry -- something that many thought was impossible.


Looks like they've edited the article to represent the reality of what they did...or are claiming to have done.

Too bad there are no kids in NOLA East working on the shitty editing in today's journalism.

Anything is possible with black girl magic

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Get those kids out of NOE immediately.

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Just don’t take the interstate.

This is their lecture abstract:


In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered it's always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular. In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states that “There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem.” But that isn’t quite true: in our lecture we present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1.

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In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered it's always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular. In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states that “There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem.” But that isn’t quite true: in our lecture we present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1.

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“We wish we thought of that! Those teenage girls from east NO think outside the box!”- Descartes, Newton, Pascal, Russell, Einstein, Maxwell, Kepler…

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“We wish we thought of that! Those teenage girls from east NO think outside the box!”- Descartes, Newton, Pascal, Russell, Einstein, Maxwell, Kepler…

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“ a black person is getting positive recognition . Quick, everyone panic!”-

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Alyosha

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"Our Slogan is 'No Excellence Without Hard Labor.' So, they definitely push us,"

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Oof, I’m surprised they haven’t been canceled. But there is hope that these young ladies just don’t have parents pushing victimhood on them.

You, my friend, are a gaslighting half-wit moron.

Who’da thunk the smartest people in the world come out of New Orleans East. First the guy that uses trig and geometry to shoot people traveling at 70mph and now this. Something in the water out there.