A couple of kids just proved Pythagorean theorem using trig

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Hopefully they stay far away from medicine and either sit in a throne in the financial world or end up at the Princeton Research Institute
Working 80-100 hours a week for $100,000 a year is an improvement?

Terence Tao is generally considered the best mathematician of the last 100 years. In interviews he says that he averages about 80 hours a week and according to California public records makes about the same as the average academic general surgeon.
 
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I am putting it out there that I think think is BS. Fake news
In which sense do you think it is fake?

The math? The novelty? Or that they, themselves, produced the proof?

I think there is a decent chance that people have found other interesting proofs… but would still be impressive for high school students to find a new one.
 
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So many good Shaq quotes
They were running triangle offense and he references the Pythagorean theorem…coincidence? I think not 🙂
 
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