As this year’s Women’s History Month is being celebrated by women and girls all across the world,two Black teenagers from New Orleans pull off the unfathomable by figuring out a maths issue that was thought to have taken 2,000 years to solve. Within, you may learn more about these two remarkable high school students.
According reports on GlobalGrind, Two high school kids from New Orleans, Louisiana named Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson are said to have solved an “impossible” maths issue. They were the only high school students present at the conference where the brilliant girl team presented their study.
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Jackson and Johnson are St. Mary’s Academy pupils in New Orleans. They presented their findings and explained how they had used trigonometry without utilising circular reasoning to demonstrate Pythagoras’s theorem. For more over 2,000 years, various mathematicians around the world had held this discovery to be unattainable.
At the semi-annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society’s Southeastern Section held at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, they presented their research titled “An Impossible Proof of Pythagoras.” They were reportedly the only high school students present at the conference, which was attended by maths experts from a wide range of esteemed institutes and universities around the nation.
According to Johnson, who spoke to WWLTV, “it’s really an incomparable experience because there’s absolutely nothing like being able to do something that people don’t think young people can do.” “Oftentimes, you don’t see kids like us doing this stuff,”
They also give their professors credit for inspiring students by instilling the school’s motto, “No Excellence Without Hard Work,” in them.
Jackson remarked, “Our teachers are excellent.”
Johnson and Jackson plan to enroll in college and pursue STEM degrees in environmental engineering and biochemistry, respectively.
