US teens have come up with new proof to prove the Pythagoras theorem in a novel manner that makes use of trigonometry and not circular reasoning. Here is everything you need to know about the story.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Wiles, the mathematician who presented a proof of Fermat's last theorem back in 1993, stands next to the famous result. AP ...

In an remarkable academic achievement, two US college students, Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, have expanded upon Pythagoras' famous theorem by developing five new solutions using trigonometry.

Mathematics is distinguished from the sciences by the freedom it enjoys in choosing basic assumptions from which consequences can be deduced by applying the laws of logic. We call the basic ...

The first proof that many people ever learn, early in high school, is the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It takes just a few lines and uses no ...