The tablet is engraved with three sets of Pythagorean triples: three whole numbers for which the sum of the squares of the first two equals the square of the third. The triples engraved on Si.

However, this in turn means that they were familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem – or, at the very least, with its special ...

Si.427 contains three Pythagorean triples: 3, 4, 5; 8, 15, 17; and 5, 12, 13. The Babylonians used a base 60 number system – similar to how we keep time today – which made working with prime ...

Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about the oldest known tadpole, new proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and the evolutionary roots of alcohol consumption.

Two American teenagers have challenged centuries-old math conventions by developing new trigonometric proofs for the Pythagorean theorem, stirring excitement in the academic world. Calcea Johnson ...

The high schoolers presented their theory at a national mathematics conference. Two Black teenage girls from New Orleans say they could be the first mathematicians in at least 2,000 years to find ...

Translating the markings from base 60 – the counting system used by ancient Babylonians – showed that these ancient mathematicians were aware of the Pythagorean theorem (not called that ...