IFLScience

The Pythagorean Theorem Is Actually 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
IFLScience

Teenagers Publish Trigonometric Proof Of Pythagoras’ Theorem Once Considered Impossible

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
EDN

The Pythagorean theorem: engineering applications

August 15, 2017 (8/15/17) was Pythagorean Theorem Day (see I missed Pythagorean Theorem Day). I was not even aware that there was such a day until this year, but it brought to my attention some really ...
Science Daily

Streamlining The 'Pythagorean Theorem Of Baseball'

Is your local Major League Baseball team better than its record suggests? Math researchers are considering alternatives to the Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball, devised by baseball statistician Bill ...
Nature

Physics: Bell’s theorem still reverberates

Fifty years ago, John Bell made metaphysics testable, but quantum scientists still dispute the implications. Howard Wiseman proposes a way forward. In 1964, Northern Irish physicist John Bell proved ...
Quanta Magazine

A New Theorem Maps Out the Limits of Quantum Physics

The result highlights a fundamental tension: Either the rules of quantum mechanics don’t always apply, or at least one basic assumption about reality must be wrong. The founders of quantum mechanics ...