The Pythagorean theorem is crucial in various fields, including construction, manufacturing and navigation, enabling precise measurements and the creation of right angles for large structures. It ...
Imagine a right triangle with one side that lies flat against a table ... Loomis believed that if you used these functions in a proof of the Pythagorean theorem, you would have assumed the theorem to ...
We investigate here the representability of integers as sums of triangular numbers, where the n-th triangular number is given by Tn = n(n+1)/2. In particular, we show ...
British professor Sir Andrew Wiles was awarded mathematics’ most prestigious prize this week, for providing the proof to a theorem that had stymied everyone in the field for over 350 years. Wiles was ...
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