A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.
And they only got $500 for it. Not quite on the level of the Fields Medal… although apparently even that’s only $15,000 CAD (not sure why Wikipedia tells me the amount in Canadian money, but whatever).
And they only got $500 for it. Not quite on the level of the Fields Medal… although apparently even that’s only $15,000 CAD (not sure why Wikipedia tells me the amount in Canadian money, but whatever).