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.

A clay tablet dating back to 1800-1600 BC challenges the belief that Pythagoras was the original discoverer of the Pythagorean Theorem. The tablet, named "YBC 7289," contains proofs and principles ...

For National 5 Lifeskills Maths revise how Pythagoras' Theorem can determine the side of a right-angled triangle and be used to find a missing dimension.

For over 2,000 years, Pythagoras’ theorem has stood as one of the cornerstones of mathematics. It states that in a right-angled triangle , the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides equals ...

Learn more about Pythagoras' theorem with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

How they proved Pythagoras right. Anyone who has studied math through high school is likely familiar with the Pythagorean ...

Two years ago, a couple of high school classmates each composed a mathematical marvel, a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean theorem. Now, they’re unveiling 10 more. For over 2,000 years ...

Karnataka has proposed teaching all schoolchildren Sanskrit as a third language and introducing Manusmriti and ancient numerical systems like Bhuta-sankhya and katapayadi-sankhya paddhati in the ...

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 ...

Dr Daniel Mansfield from UNSW Science’s School of Mathematics and Statistics showed the answer was hiding in plain sight in a museum in Istanbul for over a century in a 3700-year-old clay tablet.