This is where Emmy Noether, a groundbreaking German mathematician, comes into the picture. She found a breathtakingly simple ...

The Pythagorean theorem stands as one of mathematics' most enduring and practical principles. Named after the ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras, this fundamental concept has guided engineers, ...

Ancient Indian mathematician Baudhayana was the first person to formulate a theorem on right-angled triangles that in its modern form came to be associated with Greek mathematician Pythagoras, a newly ...

Baudhyana (represntative image (L), In Raphael's fresco The School of Athens, Pythagoras is shown writing in a book as a young man presents him with a tablet showing a diagrammatic representation of ...

Abstract: This paper first presents a general theory predicting harmonic components in naturally sampled pulse-width modulation (PWM) output signals, so that any input signal with a Fourier series ...

Prince Rupert (left) and Jakob Steininger (right) credit, released as a courtesy of Mr. Steininger A pair of European mathematicians have proven a 300-year-old inference on shapes wrong, and won a bet ...

The Pythagorean Theorem, a cornerstone of geometry, unveils a profound relationship between the sides of a right-angled triangle. Understanding and mastering this theorem is crucial, not only for ...

Abstract: To address the challenges of low single-target efficiency, multi-source signal aliasing and equipment time error in rocket debris sonic boom localisation ...

I n the coffee shop on our campus, students gather around a blackboard. On the table lies an open copy of Lobachevsky’s Theory of Parallels. Each student holds a different color of chalk and marks a ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 1, 2024 For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.