March 26th 2023.
The resourcefulness of children has always been motivating. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, two teenagers from New Orleans, used their inventiveness to solve an equation that had been deemed unimaginable.
4WWL revealed that Johnson and Jackson proved that Pythagoras’ Theorem can be demonstrated with the use of trigonometry. The two high school students presented their findings at the American Mathematical Society’s Annual Southeastern Conference.
“It’s really an unrivaled feeling, indeed, as there is nothing like being able to do something that people don’t expect young people to be able to do,” Johnson conveyed to 4WWL. “Often times you
see these things, you don’t generally observe children like us doing it.”
4WWL stated that mathematicians have been attempting to prove that Pythagoras’ Theorem can be established with trigonometry for two thousand years. A teacher tested Johnson and Jackson to demonstrate the theory.
“Our Mantra is ‘No Excellence Without Hard Work.’ So, they surely urge us,” Johnson stated.
Jackson added: “We have really great educators.”
The Grio reports that “Johnson and Jackson’s abstract adds that the book with the largest known collection of proof for the theorem – Elisha Loomis’s The Pythagorean Proposition – “clearly states that ‘there are no trigonometric proofs because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean theorem.’”
Essence declared that Johnson and Jackson will be studying environmental engineering and biochemistry when they go to college.
Graduates of St. Mary’s High School, Jackson and Johnson join a list of notable St. Mary’s alumni, including Judge Dana Douglas, the first African American woman to serve on the New Orleans federal appeals court, and Leah Lange Chase, the former proprietor of Dooky Chase restaurant.
Honestly, it's not unexpected. Black people have been soaring high and defying gravity forever. Hopefully, everyone else can keep up with us.
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