In an extraordinary achievement that has stunned the global mathematics community, two high school students from Louisiana have developed a novel way to prove the Pythagorean theorem—and their ...

The students developed their proofs by examining how new right triangles could be created from an original right triangle.

Angle OGH (\(y\)) = angle OHG because triangle GOH is also isosceles. Lengths OH and OG are also both radii. Angle GOH = \(180^\circ - 2y\) (because angles in a triangle add up to 180°).