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Note on the Theorems of Menelaus and Ceva

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

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Menelaus's theorem is

If a transversal DEF cut the sides of triangle ABC at the points D B F, then

and conversely.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1901

References

* Essai sur la théorie da transversales, p. 68 (1806).Google Scholar

* With regard to the naming of the triangles ABC OCB COA BAO see Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, Vol. I., p. 62.Google Scholar