For generations, Indian students have learnt it simply as the Pythagoras Theorem. In a quiet but significant shift, the Class 8 NCERT mathematics textbook has now introduced it as the ...
Two years ago, a couple of high school classmates each composed a mathematical marvel, a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Now, they’re unveiling 10 more. For over 2,000 years, such ...
This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...
If the sides of the right-angled triangle are labelled π‘Ž, 𝑏 and 𝑐 then Pythagoras' theorem can be written as the formula π‘Ž² + 𝑏² = 𝑐². Pythagoras' theorem can be used to find the length of line ...