Two High School Students Successfully Solved a Math Puzzle that Has Perplexed Scholars for Over Two Millennia
In a bid to foster creativity, Michelle Blouin Williams, a math teacher at St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, spearheaded a school-wide math contest with a formidable challenge: to devise a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry. The theorem, a cornerstone of geometry, has long stumped scholars with its complexities, deemed unsolvable via trigonometry for nearly two millennia.