Brocard can refer to:
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Brocard (law)
A brocard is a legal maxim in Latin that is, in a strict sense, derived from traditional legal authorities, even from ancient Rome. The word is a variant of the Latinized name of Burchard of Worms (died AD 1025), Bishop of Worms, Germany, who com ...
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Henri Brocard
Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard (12 May 1845 – 16 January 1922) was a French meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard point ...
, a nineteenth-century mathematician, and these geometrical entities he discovered:
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Brocard points
In geometry, Brocard points are special points within a triangle. They are named after Henri Brocard (1845–1922), a French mathematician.
Definition
In a triangle ''ABC'' with sides ''a'', ''b'', and ''c'', where the vertices are labeled '' ...
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Brocard triangle
In geometry, the Brocard triangle of a triangle is a triangle formed by the intersection of lines from a vertex to its corresponding Brocard point and a line from another vertex to its corresponding Brocard point and the other two points construc ...
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Brocard circle
In geometry, the Brocard circle (or seven-point circle) is a circle derived from a given triangle. It passes through the circumcenter and symmedian of the triangle, and is centered at the midpoint of the line segment joining them (so that this s ...
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Saint Brocard
Brocard is said to have been one of the first leaders of hermits at Mount Carmel, and was perhaps the leader of the community on the death of Berthold of Calabria around 1195. Various details of his life are legendary.
History
Brocard (or Burchard ...
, first of the priors of the Carmelite Order according to oral tradition
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