{"id":161060,"date":"2023-03-26T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/2-high-schoolers-say-theyve-found-proof-for-the-pythagorean-theorem-which-mathematicians-thought-was-impossible"},"modified":"2023-03-26T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T21:22:43","slug":"2-high-schoolers-say-theyve-found-proof-for-the-pythagorean-theorem-which-mathematicians-thought-was-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/2-high-schoolers-say-theyve-found-proof-for-the-pythagorean-theorem-which-mathematicians-thought-was-impossible","title":{"rendered":"2 high schoolers say they\u2019ve found proof for the Pythagorean theorem, which mathematicians thought was impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2-high-schoolers-say-theyve-found-proof-for-the-pythagorean-theorem-which-mathematicians-thought-was-impossible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Getty Images Two US high schoolers believe they have cracked a mathematical mystery left unproven for centuries. Calcea Johnson and Ne\u2019Kiya Jackson looked at the Pythagorean theorem, foundational to trigonometry. The American Mathematical Society said the teenagers should submit their findings to a journal. Two high school seniors from New Orleans think they have managed to prove a 2,000-year-old theorem that has stumped mathematicians for centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Two US high schoolers believe they have cracked a mathematical mystery left unproven for centuries. Calcea Johnson and Ne\u2019Kiya Jackson looked at the Pythagorean theorem, foundational to trigonometry. The American Mathematical Society said the teenagers should submit their findings to a journal. Two high school seniors from New Orleans think they have managed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}