The New Yorker

Einstein’s Boyhood Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem

On November 26, 1949, Albert Einstein published an essay in the Saturday Review of Literature in which he described two pivotal moments in his childhood. The first involved a compass that his father ...
JSTOR Daily

Proof of Conjectures About the Expected Values of the Elementary Symmetric Functions of a ...

This paper provides proof of conjectures about the expected values of the jth elementary symmetric function of the roots (i.e. $E(\operatorname{tr}_j A)$) of a non ...
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The Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History's First Whiff of Galois Theory

https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.48.1.18 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.48.1.18 We describe the fundamental theorem on symmetric ...
Scientific American

2 High School Students Have Proved the Pythagorean Theorem. Here’s What That Means

Two high school students have proved the Pythagorean theorem in a way that one early 20th-century mathematician thought was impossible: using trigonometry. Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, both at ...