{"id":205773,"date":"2025-02-06T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/two-american-high-school-girls-rewrite-2000-years-of-mathematics-with-a-historic-new-pythagoras-theorem-proof"},"modified":"2025-02-06T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:05:22","slug":"two-american-high-school-girls-rewrite-2000-years-of-mathematics-with-a-historic-new-pythagoras-theorem-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/two-american-high-school-girls-rewrite-2000-years-of-mathematics-with-a-historic-new-pythagoras-theorem-proof","title":{"rendered":"Two American High School Girls Rewrite 2,000 Years of Mathematics with a Historic New Pythagoras\u2019 Theorem Proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-american-high-school-girls-rewrite-2000-years-of-mathematics-with-a-historic-new-pythagoras-theorem-proof.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a purely trigonometric proof of Pythagoras\u2019 theorem was impossible. But two high school students from Louisiana may have just changed that. Their unexpected discovery has sparked debate among experts\u2014and could reshape how we understand geometry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a purely trigonometric proof of Pythagoras\u2019 theorem was impossible. But two high school students from Louisiana may have just changed that. Their unexpected discovery has sparked debate among experts\u2014and could reshape how we understand geometry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205773","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=205773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}