Welcome to The Riddler. Every week, I offer up problems related to the things we hold dear around here: math, logic and probability. Two puzzles are presented each week: the Riddler Express for those ...

https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.47.5.356 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.47.5.356 This paper provides a new, long proof of the Pythagorean ...

A triangle is a polygon. It is a closed 3-sided shape made up of straight lines. The ‘tri-’ part of the word triangle means three. A triangle has 3 sides and 3 angles. Interior angles are the angles ...

An understanding of how to use Pythagoras’ theorem to find missing sides in a right-angled triangle is essential for applying the theorem in different contexts. (3,1) is the coordinate that is 3 along ...