Israeli 10th-Grader Discovers Elegant Geometry Theorem

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 13, 2016 @02:01PM from the or-at-least-a-nice-proof dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a report that: Tamar Barbi, a 10th grade student living in Hod Hasharon, Israel, discovered that the theorem she was using to solve one of the problems on her geometry homework didn't actually exist. With the help of her teacher and mathematicians, she wrote up a proof for the theorem, which helps provide new and more elegant proofs for many other mathematical theorems. Posters at Hacker News have some skeptical words about the theorem's novelty, but also about the phrasing of the news report, which seems to omit some crucial words.

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Re:If this was an American high school... by Sarten-X · 2016-03-13 14:12 · Score: 5, Funny

Never mind that that's not actually how Common Core guidelines work, but hey... it's the current target of hate, and we've got two minutes to spare...

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Re:Common Core is just a set of standards by TapeCutter · 2016-03-13 22:03 · Score: 1, Funny

Who let the Trump voter in?

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