The Pythagorean cup, also known as the Greedy Cup or the Cup of Justice, is a marvel of ancient engineering and a profound symbol of ethical teaching attributed to the famous Greek mathematician and ...

Two US high schoolers believe they have cracked a mathematical mystery left unproven for centuries. Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson looked at the Pythagorean theorem, foundational to trigonometry.

With all due respect to Pythagoras, newly uncovered evidence suggests that his famous theorem, used to calculate the lengths of each side of a right triangle, might be 1,000 years older than him. That ...