“People might expect too much out of me if I become a mathematician,” Jackson said, shaking her head.
Johnson, for her part, added: “I may take up a minor in math, but I don’t want that to be my job job.”.
Sunday’s conversation on CBS’s popular Sunday evening news magazine were perhaps their most extensive, widely broadcast remarks to date on the new ground that they broke with respect to the Pythagorean theorem.
Countless schoolchildren taking geometry have memorized the notation summarizing the theorem: a2 + b2 = c2.
And they flocked to social media demanding that a 2009 trigonometry-based proof for Pythagoras’s theorem get its due.
They also received a commendation from Louisiana’s then governor as well as symbolic keys to the city of New Orleans.
Meanwhile, Johnson – who graduated from St Mary’s as its valedictorian – is now an environmental engineering student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. »
