Carnot's Theorem (perpendiculars)
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Carnot's Theorem (perpendiculars)
Carnot's theorem (named after Lazare Carnot) describes a necessary and sufficient condition for three lines that are perpendicular to the (extended) sides of a triangle having a common point of intersection. The theorem can also be thought of as a generalization of the Pythagorean theorem In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite t .... Theorem For a triangle \triangle ABC with sides a, b, c consider three lines that are perpendicular to the triangle sides and intersect in a common point F. If P_a, P_b, P_c are the pedal points of those three perpendiculars on the sides a, b, c, then the following equation holds: : , AP_c, ^2+, BP_a, ^2+, CP_b, ^2=, BP_c, ^2+, CP_a, ^2+, AP_b, ^2 The converse of the statement above is true as well, that is if the equation holds for the peda ...
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Lazare Carnot
Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (; 13 May 1753 – 2 August 1823) was a French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Education and early life Carnot was born on 13 May 1753 in the village of Nolay, in Burgundy, as the son of a local judge and royal notary, Claude Carnot and his wife, Marguerite Pothier. He was the second oldest of seven children. At the age of fourteen, Lazare and his brother were enrolled at the ''Collège d'Autun'', where he focused on the study of philosophy and the classics. He held a strong belief in stoic philosophy and was deeply influenced by Roman civilization. When he turned fifteen, he left school in Autun to strengthen his philosophical knowledge and study under the Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice. During his short time with them, he studied logic, mathematics and theology under the Abbe Bison. After being impressed with Lazare's work a ...
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Necessity And Sufficiency
In logic and mathematics, necessity and sufficiency are terms used to describe a material conditional, conditional or implicational relationship between two Statement (logic), statements. For example, in the Conditional sentence, conditional statement: "If then ", is necessary for , because the Truth value, truth of is guaranteed by the truth of (equivalently, it is impossible to have without ). Similarly, is sufficient for , because being true always implies that is true, but not being true does not always imply that is not true. In general, a necessary condition is one that must be present in order for another condition to occur, while a sufficient condition is one that produces the said condition. The assertion that a statement is a "necessary ''and'' sufficient" condition of another means that the former statement is true if and only if the latter is true. That is, the two statements must be either simultaneously true, or simultaneously false. In ordinary English (a ...
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Pythagorean Theorem
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem or Pythagoras' theorem is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry between the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares on the other two sides. This theorem can be written as an equation relating the lengths of the sides ''a'', ''b'' and the hypotenuse ''c'', often called the Pythagorean equation: :a^2 + b^2 = c^2 , The theorem is named for the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, born around 570 BC. The theorem has been proven numerous times by many different methods – possibly the most for any mathematical theorem. The proofs are diverse, including both geometric proofs and algebraic proofs, with some dating back thousands of years. When Euclidean space is represented by a Cartesian coordinate system in analytic geometry, Euclidean distance satisfies the Pythagorean relation: the squared dist ...
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Perpendicular Bisector
In geometry, bisection is the division of something into two equal or congruent parts, usually by a line, which is then called a ''bisector''. The most often considered types of bisectors are the ''segment bisector'' (a line that passes through the midpoint of a given segment) and the ''angle bisector'' (a line that passes through the apex of an angle, that divides it into two equal angles). In three-dimensional space, bisection is usually done by a plane, also called the ''bisector'' or ''bisecting plane''. Perpendicular line segment bisector Definition *The perpendicular bisector of a line segment is a line, which meets the segment at its midpoint perpendicularly. The Horizontal intersector of a segment AB also has the property that each of its points X is equidistant from the segment's endpoints: (D)\quad , XA, = , XB, . The proof follows from and Pythagoras' theorem: :, XA, ^2=, XM, ^2+, MA, ^2=, XM, ^2+, MB, ^2=, XB, ^2 \; . Property (D) is usually used for ...
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