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In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.

"Even the +, −, =, and × signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in words or pictorial word images"

A self-help book of sorts, this distillation of pre-Socratic philosophy succeeds in being both populist and profound

Letters: Catherine Scarlett responds to an article about US teenagers who claim to have proved Pythagoras’s theorem using trigonometry

SATIRE is dead. A saying that both evokes a sense of I got here first, and didn’t someone say that a thousand years ago? Live long enough and…

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Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Now, more than 2,500 years after his time, we dive into his hidden history as a possible cult leader.

Artists who once endured racism and homophobia in Queensland are bringing exciting new works celebrating their stories to the 2022 Brisbane festival