An Impossible Proof Of Pythagoras
- Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons - 423
Saturday, March 18, 2023 Saturday, March 18, 2023
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM EDT 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM UTC
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In the 2000 years since trigonometry was discovered it's always been assumed that any alleged proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem based on trigonometry must be circular. In fact, in the book containing the largest known collection of proofs (The Pythagorean Proposition by Elisha Loomis) the author flatly states that “There are no trigonometric proofs, because all the fundamental formulae of trigonometry are themselves based upon the truth of the Pythagorean Theorem.”
But that isn’t quite true: in our lecture we present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry—the Law of Sines—and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity \sin^2x + \cos^2x = 1.
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J Ne’Kiya D Jackson - St. Mary's Academy
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J Calcea Rujean Johnson - St. Mary's Academy
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SS30A -
AMS Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Research, I
Leslie Julianna Meadows1, Tsz Ho Chan2, Asma Azizi3, Mark Grinshpon4 and Joshua Grant Miller4, (1)Georgia State University, Stockbridge, GA(2)Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA(3)Kennesaw State University(4)Georgia State University- Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons - 423
Saturday, March 18, 2023 Saturday, March 18, 2023
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM UTC